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Readings
Readings
Wispelwey et al_settler colonial determinants of health.pdfYiftachel - 2017 - Extending Ethnocracy - Reflections and Suggestions.pdfYiftachel - 2023 - Deepening Apartheid.pdfSmith - 2015 - Healthcare under siege Geopolitics of medical service provision in the Gaza Strip.pdfYacobi 2021-beyond-causes-of-causes-health-stigma-and-the-settler-colonial-urban-territory-in-the-negev-naqab.pdfWeek 3 Slides - 11_11_2025.pptxApplied Content & Supplemental Materials
Applied Content & Supplemental Materials
Class Activity
Class Activity
In this week's class, we began to think deeply about the various systems of control and the parallels between the US & Israel as occupying states, historically and in the present. This group activity is simple and allows students to utilize their current knowledge of both colonial entities to outline state control and repression of indigenous populations. By placing flipcharts throughout the classroom, each associated with a mechanism of colonialism, students were able to track colonial logics of control.
Materials:
large flipcharts or post-its around the classroom walls
markers
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Yiftachel
How do the spatial practices described by Yiftachel—such as zoning, land confiscation, and restricted mobility—serve as structural determinants of health for both Palestinians and marginalized communities within Israel? What might comparable geographies of health disparity look like in other settler-colonial contexts?
In what ways do citizenship hierarchies and ethnocratic governance structure access to the social determinants of health (e.g., housing, water, healthcare, education)? How might the institutionalization of ethnic privilege translate into differential health outcomes?
How might Yiftachel’s notion of “deepening apartheid” illuminate the environmental and infrastructural determinants of health? For instance, how do environmental degradation, restricted land access, and infrastructural neglect function as tools of both political and biological control?
Wispelwey
How does the naturalization of settler colonial power obscure the recognition of structural determinants of health? What methodological or epistemological shifts are needed to make these determinants visible in health research and policy?
In what ways does settler colonialism restructure ontologies of land and health? How might reclaiming Indigenous or decolonial ontologies challenge biomedical paradigms that treat health as detached from territory and political struggle?
What are the analytic advantages—and potential risks—of reframing “social determinants of health” as “settler colonial determinants of health”? How does this shift alter both accountability and intervention strategies in health systems operating on occupied or colonized lands?
In what ways does the concept of settler colonial determinants of health deepen or reframe our understanding of structural racism? Does this framework merely extend the analysis of racialized inequities, or does it fundamentally reposition land, sovereignty, and historical continuity as primary structuring forces of health inequity? What are the implications of this shift for contemporary antiracist and decolonial health interventions?
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