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Beyond the accolades: A postcolonial c ritique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter

Beyond the accolades: A postcolonial c ritique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter . Presenters: Karen McPhail-Bell Professor Bronwyn Fredericks Acknowledgements: Dr Mark Brough (co-Author) Dr Chelsea Bond Institute for Urban Indigenous Health

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Beyond the accolades: A postcolonial c ritique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter

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  1. Beyond the accolades:A postcolonial critique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter Presenters: Karen McPhail-Bell Professor Bronwyn Fredericks Acknowledgements: Dr Mark Brough (co-Author) Dr Chelsea Bond Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Queensland University of Technology

  2. The Ottawa Charter: The “Bible” for health promotion workers? • PhD positioning • Significance of Ottawa Charter Image from AFAO: http://www.afao.org.au

  3. Methods and approach • Postcolonial standpoint • Critical discourse analysis • 6 papers, 5 themes (provided by WHO) • Conference organisation Image from Powercube: http://www.powercube.net

  4. 6 background papers • Strengthening Communities (England) • Creating Environments for Health (Canada) • Learning and Coping (France) • Reorienting Health Services (Italy) • Reorienting Health Services (Denmark) • Building Healthy Public Policies: Focus for a New Public Health (U.S.A.)

  5. Colonial context of the Ottawa Conference • Western/colonizer centric worldviews, e.g. • “The conference was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. Discussions focused on the needs of industrialized countries, but took into account similar concerns in all other regions” • Contradicts Ottawa Charter as progressing the Alma Ata agenda?

  6. Normalisation of a Western view of health • Language: Collective view of humanity and health • Membership categories: United identity versus distinguished • Hybrid space: • Marginalised become central yet excluded objects • Western “we” and non-Western “other”: • “Interpretive repertoires” • Normalised Western individualistic neo-liberal assumptions Image from Boundless: www.boundless.com

  7. Exclusionary tactics regarding non-Western views • Stories that mattered from wealthy industrialised nations • Camouflage the hierarchical global order of power • Positive HP positioning normalised intervening onto weak/powerless ‘other’ • Ambivalence – ‘colonial mimicry’ • Exclusion of developing nations and Indigenous people Image from www.oxfamblogs.org

  8. Conclusion… so what? • Reflexive practice crucial to health promotion – including history • Applied HP’s intention for HFA to HP’s development process • Further consideration & action to practice health promotion’s own principles and values on itself

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