Michael Wessels – författare

The San or Bushmen of southern Africa have exerted a fascination over generations of writers and scholars, from novelists and anarchists to ethnologists and geneticists, and also occupy a special place in the popular imagination as the First People and the contemporary remnant of spiritual and natural man. The ways in which particular groups of people from southern Africa have been traditionally categorised and positioned as objects of scrutiny by a range of academic disciplines is increasingly being contested and questioned. There is a growing awareness of the cultural, economic and genetic entanglement of the peoples of the region.

This book examines how San and Khoe people are represented, by others, as well as by those who identify as San or Khoe. The book interrogates the ways in which disciplines, through their methodologies and ways of authorising knowledge, not only "discover" or "reveal" knowledge but produce it in ways that involve complex and often ambiguous relationships with power structures and forms of intellectual, symbolic and cultural capital. One major trend that emerges is that the San and Khoe can no longer be seen as people of the past but have to be acknowledged as contemporary and socially situated individuals and communities who are increasingly contesting the representations which others have imposed on them.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

The San or Bushmen of southern Africa have exerted a fascination over generations of writers and scholars, from novelists and anarchists to ethnologists and geneticists, and also occupy a special place in the popular imagination as the First People and the contemporary remnant of spiritual and natural man. The ways in which particular groups of people from southern Africa have been traditionally categorised and positioned as objects of scrutiny by a range of academic disciplines is increasingly being contested and questioned. There is a growing awareness of the cultural, economic and genetic entanglement of the peoples of the region.

This book examines how San and Khoe people are represented, by others, as well as by those who identify as San or Khoe. The book interrogates the ways in which disciplines, through their methodologies and ways of authorising knowledge, not only "discover" or "reveal" knowledge but produce it in ways that involve complex and often ambiguous relationships with power structures and forms of intellectual, symbolic and cultural capital. One major trend that emerges is that the San and Khoe can no longer be seen as people of the past but have to be acknowledged as contemporary and socially situated individuals and communities who are increasingly contesting the representations which others have imposed on them.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Dieses Buch beschreibt den aktuell diskutierten und vereinzelt erprobten Ansatz der Gesundheitskioske. Gesundheitskioske stellen ein innovatives Angebot im Gesundheitsbereich dar, da sie den Zugang zu Versorgung, Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung insbesondere für solche Communities erhöhen, die sich mit Zugangsbarrieren konfrontiert sehen. Zugangsbarrieren können in der Kenntnis des Gesundheitssystems, Sprachkompetenz, den fehlenden gesundheitsbezogenen Angebote in der unmittelbaren Wohnumgebung liegen. In diesem Essential wird die Vielfalt der aktuellen Ansätze aus einer gesundheitsökonomischen, sozialräumlichen und pflegerischen Perspektive vor dem Hintergrund eigener Erfahrung im Aufbau und der Implementierung von Kiosken beschrieben. Denn zur Umsetzung eines Gesundheitskiosks ist immer eine spezifische Lösung am jeweiligen Ort zu entwickeln.