Transbordering assemblages: Power, agency and autonomy (re)producing health infrastructures in the South East of England

Carlos Moreno-Leguizamon and Marcela Tovar-Restrepo
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Carlos Moreno-Leguizamon: University of Greenwich, UK
Marcela Tovar-Restrepo: Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

Urban Studies, 2022, vol. 59, issue 3, 624-640

Abstract: This paper discusses how intersecting identities, stigma and health-based infrastructures are spatially affiliated and territorialised in the South East of England through the findings of three research projects aimed at understanding health inequalities among urban Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities including Gypsies and Travellers (BAME and GT) groups. It problematises Wacquant’s approach to territorial stigma by explaining how Butler’s notion of vulnerability and Castoriadis’ notion of autonomous agency help to expand our understanding of the interplay between stigma and health infrastructures. Moreover, it suggests that such interplay requires an intersectional approach to identity as performative and embodied practice using illustrative examples. We propose that these health settings and infrastructures can be characterised as ‘transbordering assemblages’, following Irazábal who describes its embedded notions of pluri-locality (here and there: ‘[T]Here’), pluri-identity and practices of bordering (being in or out/in and out/in between) when experiencing health needs.

Keywords: agency; autonomy; Covid-19; health infrastructures; learning alliance; NHS; ‘transbordering assemblages’; 机构; 自治; æ–°å† è‚ºç‚Ž; åŒ»ç–—ä¿ å ¥åŸºç¡€è®¾æ–½; å­¦ä¹ è ”ç›Ÿ; å›½æ°‘åŒ»ç–—æœ åŠ¡ä½“ç³» (NHS); â€œè·¨è¾¹ç•Œé›†å ˆâ€ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098020984919

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