Mara Linden
as been a Research Assistant at the Department of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt since November 2018. She studied Political Science, International Relations and Human Geography in Frankfurt and Birmingham. Her research interests are in the field of socio-technical global governance, international political economy and restructurings of political and economic relations.
Publications
Linden, M. (2020). Auswirkungen der Pandemie: Gesundheitskrise, Ökonomie und Ungleichheit. Geographica Helvelvetica 75, 307–313.
Linden, M. (2020). Globale Gesundheitspolitik und Ökonomie. Beitrag zur Reihe “Sicherheit in der Krise. Soziopolis.
Linden, M. (2020). SARS-CoV-2: Gesundheit, Ökonomie und Geschlecht. Feministische GeoRundmail 81, 7–12.
Linden, M, & Lindner, P. (2020). Globale Gesundheitspolitik zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und State of Exception. Newsletter Arbeitskreis Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung in der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie, 1/2020, 9–11.
Research
Global health in crisis? Global health politics between economic rationalities, securitization and crisis response (Mara Linden M.A.; Prof. Peter Lindner; DFG proposal in preparation)
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health has become a central topic in both policy and research. In her dissertation project, Mara also looks at COVID-19, although she sees the pandemic in line with general developments in global health. In the past few decades, global health politics has been characterized by shifts and restructurings sustainably changing and modifying the field. Under restructurings, such as a securitization as well as economization, health is treated as a biopolitical issue as well as intertwined with economic and political security. COVID-19 as a “burning lens” has emphasized the previous changes: Questions of public health, conditions of globalisation such as trade and tourism, and restrictions in daily life are being negotiated in a new / different form than before.
Global health is here understood as an assemblage framed by different actors, knowledges, rationalities, technologies and practices. In this framework, Mara is posing questions such as: What socio-political rationalities can be observed in global health politics in Germany? How are they framed in socio-technical apparatuses, technologies and regulations – how is global health politics framed, e.g., in strategies and policy papers, and by which decisions is this influenced?