title: A Culture of Solidarity?
abstract: In this article, based on interviews, ethnographic data, and documentary evidence, I examine the case of a Bolivian-Iranian hospital in the context of south-south scientific and economic collaboration. This hospital provides a lens through which we can understand the tensions between local and global processes. Medicine, in particular, has become a site where such alignments are made visible and tangible: the term 'biogeopolitics' helps to describe this process. I use the hospital as a way to illustrate what theory from the south might look like ethnographically, and conclude with a discussion of the contradictions and promises of theory from the south within south-south collaborations.
authors.affiliation: a University of Mississippi, University , Mississippi , USA.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Centellas
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D001838:Bolivia / Q000208:ethnology; D006282:Health Personnel; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000208:ethnology; D011057:Politics
keywords: Bolivia; Iran; biogeopolitics; interculturality; theory from the south