Pharmaceuticals, Traditional Drugs, and Holy Waters in Tigray: Policies, Strategies, and Actors
The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional... more The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional state of Tgray of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The paper focuses on the market of pharmaceuticals, local and imported. It has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon, which includes the western, traditional and religious drugs. The three arenas are not independent of one another. In fact, they are interrelated in a system, which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions and the following questions will be addressed: what are, both at private and public levels, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How do the charity organizations and NGO policies affect the distribution models? How do people use it in facing the major infectious diseases? How are western pharmaceuticals perceived and used? What are the relationships among western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer these questions.
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Papers by Pino Schirripa
The 1967 war between Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab states marked a crisis point in the relationship between
the Italian Jewish communities, the PCI and the left in general, which was strong in the post-World
War II period mainly due to the common anti-fascist matrix. In this essay, the author retraces the salient
points of this crisis, privileging the use of sources from inside the community. At stake is not only an international
political option, but a more comprehensive discourse that, starting from Israel, questions different
dimensions committed to anti-Semitism. Reviewing that debate and extending it to the years that followed
the war, he highlights the emergence of new stereotypes against Jews, first and foremost the reversal of the
image of victim to that of perpetrator, which nonetheless remains an ahistorical and essentialist image. The
final part briefly discusses the intellectual and political genealogies of leftist anti-Semitism which in many
ways is a ‘karstic’ phenomenon.