{"id":425,"date":"2020-11-01T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=425"},"modified":"2023-03-09T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:49:14","slug":"how-we-talk-about-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/how-we-talk-about-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How we talk about global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How we talk about global health:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> David Verga (PATH) November 2020:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As James Baldwin points out in\u00a0<i>Notes of a Native Son<\/i>, \u201cthe root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.\u201d Regardless of our intent, the words we use have material consequences.\u00a0As NGOs,\u00a0<i>the way we describe our work shapes the way others see it, and think about it, and act on it. Verga&#8217;s examples include casual use of terms like &#8216;beneficiary,&#8217; &#8216;on-the-ground,&#8217; and &#8217;empower.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.path.org\/articles\/how-we-talk-about-public-health-and-why-it-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.path.org\/articles\/how-we-talk-about-public-health-and-why-it-matters\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we talk about global health: David Verga (PATH) November 2020: As James Baldwin points out in\u00a0Notes of a Native Son, \u201cthe root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.\u201d Regardless of our intent, the words we use have material consequences.\u00a0As NGOs,\u00a0the way we describe our work shapes the way others see it, and think about it, and act on it. Verga&#8217;s examples include casual use of terms like &#8216;beneficiary,&#8217; &#8216;on-the-ground,&#8217; and &#8217;empower.&#8217; https:\/\/www.path.org\/articles\/how-we-talk-about-public-health-and-why-it-matters\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decolonization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}