Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book is a product of the intellectual excitement the three of us shared together as faculty in a vibrant and dynamic Center for African Studies at the University of Florida in the early 2000s. In 2006, with the support of the University of Florida we organized a small working conference on transnationalism and medicine in Africa. The complexity of the issues and our desire to continue the conversation there gave rise to this volume. A few of the presentations given at that conference provided the seeds for chapters in this book. others have joined us since then. While we editors are now each in different universities and on two different continents, we have treasured the excuse working on this volume provided to continue our conversations on a regular basis. We would like to extend a very special thank-you to Leonardo Villalón, director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida 2003– 2011. He supported both us and this generative international conversation. We thank the students in Professor Dilger’s graduate seminar “Mobility and Health in Africa,” which led up to the conference in the fall of 2006. We also appreciate the range of support that we received for the original conference from Kenneth Sassaman, Allan Burns, Corinna Greene, and Ikeade Akinyemi. We benefited from the generous funding of the International office at the University of Florida. Susan Reynolds Whyte was a gifted and generative discussant at the conference. We owe a special thank-you to her for her invaluable input. We thank Julie Livingston, Brenda Chalfin, and Luise White for their intellectual interventions. The Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität (Berlin) and the Department of Anthropology in Cornell University granted funding for the preparation of the book. Carla Dietzel provided invaluable administrative support in managing deadlines and submissions as well as excellent skills in layout. Edited volumes are always a process and we thank the authors for their patience. Dee Mortensen understood the value of the conversation that this volume catalyzes and was a skillful editor. We thank Marisa Maza for the cover work, and Jeff Bercuvitz for hosting the three of us in Ithaca for a critical meeting of the editors. We hope that in the coming years this volume will generate more conversations and scholarly exchange on the transnationalization of health, medicine, and healing in and beyond Africa. This page intentionally left blank Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa This page intentionally left blank ...