This essay proposes that ‘global health partnership’ might usefully be conceived as a boundary object, in that the term’s capacity to encompass widely divergent and incompatible understandings, and to facilitate mutual misunderstandings, is a crucial part of how it ‘works’ in the world to help bring together assemblages of people and organizations across great distances and steep gradients of inequality.
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Taylor, J. S. (2018). What the word ‘partnership’ conjoins, and what it does. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.5.2.526
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