

The Living Memory of Place: Forest, Childhood, and the Health of a Displaced People
In Yatui village, on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda, a child plays with an improvised slingshot, unaware of how close his life runs parallel to a vanishing world. The Mosopisyek, an Indigenous community descended from the Kalenjin people, once raised their children within the forest itself. There, trees were not only shelter but instruction. Caves held sacred silences, streams carried stories, and the forest floor was a living classroom...
Aug 17


Book review, Divided: Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo
Reflecting on her own positionality as a patient, NHS sexual and reproductive health doctor, activist and academic, Annabel...
Dec 16, 2023


Book Review: Highway of Tears
“Because I am an indigenous woman, I am six times more likely to be murdered than my non-Indigenous sister. I am considered high risk...
Sep 30, 2023


Knowledge with and from the Global South: lessons from psychology
By Guest Writer, Geetha Reddy Hegemonic psychology takes an ethnocentric perspective even when understanding the thoughts, feelings, and...
Dec 18, 2021


Film Reviews: Documentaries on extraction and colonialism
By Guest Writer: Ysabel Secos Documentary Review With an engaging soundtrack and stark imagery, Secos is an important film that sheds...
Aug 21, 2021


Interview with Arianne Shahvisi: On Extractivism and Global Health
Jumanah Younis: Can you start by sketching out the links that you see between the extraction of resources from the global South and...
Aug 21, 2021


Issue 3: Extractivism
Welcome back to the third Race & Health Quarterly. COVID-19 variants have now caused a resurgence in infections that threatens to...
Aug 21, 2021


The EZLN: Building a Base for Global Justice
I visited the southern Mexican state of Chiapas four years ago. Walking through its towns, I saw and felt what living with nearly nothing...
Aug 21, 2021


Issue 2 Academic Highlights
Two of these papers contrast those responsible for emissions with those suffering the consequences of this pollution - the first at a...
May 22, 2021