By Seye Abimbola
“There is a problem of gaze at the heart of academic global health. It is difficult to name. […] Recent bibliometric analyses confirm autorship imbalances patterns that are largely explained by entrenched power asymmetries in global health partnerships — between researchers in high-income countries (often the source of funds and agenda) and those in middle-income and especially low-income countries (where the research is often conducted). But we cannot talk about authorship without grappling with who we are as authors, who we imagine we write for (i.e., gaze), and the position or standpoint from which we write (i.e., pose).”
Drawing on the ideas of ‘foreign’ and ‘local’ gaze, Abimbola highlights how imbalances in autorship are generally a reflection of wider power inequalities in the production and dissemination of knowledge in global health.
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