@article{ref1,
title="South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice",
journal="Cadernos de Saude Publica",
year="2017",
author="Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Muntaner, Carles and Afzal, Zabia",
volume="33",
number="Suppl 2",
pages="e00194616-e00194616",
abstract="Since the mid-2000s, the practice of South-South cooperation in health (SSC) has attracted growing attention among policymakers, health and foreign affairs ministries, global health agencies, and scholars from a range of fields. But the South-South label elucidates little about the actual content of the cooperation and conflates the &quot;where&quot; with the &quot;who, what, how, and why&quot;. While there have been some attempts to theorize global health diplomacy and South-South cooperation generally, these efforts do not sufficiently distinguish among the different kinds of practices and political values that fall under the South-South rubric, ranging from economic and geopolitical interests to social justice forms of solidarity. In the spirit of deepening theoretical, historical, and social justice analyses of SSC, this article: (1) critically revisits international relations theories that seek to explain SSC, exploring Marxian and other heterodox theories ignored in the mainstream literature; (2) traces the historical provenance of a variety of forms of SSC; and (3) introduces the concept of social justice-oriented South-South.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0102-311X",
doi="10.1590/0102-311X00194616",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00194616"
}