Countermovements from the core: the assetization of pharmaceuticals, transparency activism and the access to medicines movement

IF 3.2 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae039
Théo Bourgeron, Susi Geiger
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The assetization of essential goods brings to high-income countries the logics of scarcity that have been dominant for long in low-to-middle income countries—fostering the rise of new forms of activism. Will this new activism strengthen already existing social movements or weaken them through more moderate politics? Building on interviews and the observation and mapping of activist events, we investigate this question through the case of pharmaceuticals. We detail how the assetization of pharmaceutical drugs has triggered the constitution of a new ‘flank’ in the access to medicines (A2M) movement—pharmaceutical transparency activism. We argue that transparency activism has expanded the contestation of the pharmaceutical state of affairs, by bringing into the broader A2M movement countries that were previously at the core of global pharmaceutical chains. Our article illuminates how the assetization of essential goods creates forms of activism that have significant impact on existing social movements.
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来自核心的反运动:药品资产化、透明度行动主义和获取药品运动
生活必需品的资产化给高收入国家带来了在中低收入国家长期占主导地位的稀缺逻辑,从而促进了新形式的激进主义的兴起。这种新的行动主义是会加强现有的社会运动,还是会通过更加温和的政治来削弱这些运动?在访谈、观察和绘制激进主义活动地图的基础上,我们以制药业为例探讨了这一问题。我们详述了药品资产化如何引发了药品获取(A2M)运动中新 "侧翼 "的形成--药品透明度行动主义。我们认为,透明度行动主义将以前处于全球制药链核心的国家纳入了更广泛的 "药品可及 "运动,从而扩大了对制药现状的质疑。我们的文章阐明了必需品的资产化如何创造出对现有社会运动产生重大影响的激进主义形式。
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