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Maj-Lis Follér

Maj-Lis Follér (Photo: Göran Olofsson)Regional Studies; Latin American
Associate professor

 

 

 

 

 

 

About

I have a Ph.D. in Human Ecology from 1990 and I am Associate Professor since 2003. My dissertation had the title Environmental Changes and Human Health. A Study among the Shipibo-Conibo in Eastern Peru. The dissertation deals with the local environment, health, traditional medicine and medicinal plants.

I have also carried out research on shipibo-conibo’s perception of the cholera epidemic when it arrived to the Amazon. I worked with indigenous peoples from 1985- 2000. I then continued my research in Brazil. I was invited as a guest professor at the National School of Public Health in Rio de Janeiro and after that I continued my research in Brazil. The profile of my research is today within the area of Civil Society Organizations and HIV/AIDS policy.

I did several fieldworks in Brazil between 2000 and 2009 and wrote several articles dealing with the AIDS policy in the country. My last project has as one part the Brazilian South-South Cooperation. I was specially interested in the Brazilian support to countries in Africa, and Mozambique was one country I studied.

Brazil has supported the construction of a fabric for AIDS medicine in Mozambique. They have also other development aid programs within the health sector, to develop the health care infrastructure, and they are sending experts on different levels to create an AIDS policy. The process to study the Brazilian South-South cooperation within the health sector, lead to my current research project in Mozambique.

Areas of interest

My interest is global health, civil society, AIDS politics, Mozambique.

Current research

I am currently involved in a SIDA-financed research project: Governing AIDS through aid to civil society. Global solutions meet local problems in sub-Saharan Africa. I carry out my part of the project in Mozambique and my colleagues work in South Africa and Rwanda. I have done three fieldworks in October 2010, March 2011 and October – November 2011. The project members are arranging a workshop in Maputo in November 2011 with representatives from national civil society organizations working with AIDS. We want to have their opinions about the influence they perceive that the international donor organizations have on the AIDS policy in the country. We also want to know how the power relations are articulated, reproduced and resisted between the donors and civil society organizations receiving funds. The project goes on between 2010-2012

Teaching and tutoring

For the moment I have no teaching and no tutoring.

Publications

2012

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Kajsa Johansson (2012).
    Collective action and absent civil society organizations in the Maputo suburbs , GUP 155646

  • Esther Jean Langdon; Maj-Lis Follér (2012).
    Anthropology of Health in Brazil: A Border Discourse 0145-9740, GUP 155651

2011

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Kajsa Johansson (2011).
    A local popular movement with transnational dimensions and inattentive civil society organizations: a case study from Mozambique , GUP 146958

2010

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Patricia Lorenzoni (2010).
    ANALES. Brazil: The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion , GUP 139496

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2010).
    Civil Society Organizations and Brazilian South-South AIDS Cooperation E-ISSN: 1932-8656 Print ISSN: 1932-8648, GUP 124272

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Patricia Lorenzoni (2010).
    Introduction 2000-1223, GUP 139492

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2010).
    The Politics of AIDS: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Brazilian AIDS NGO Politics 2000-1223, GUP 139491

2009

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2009).
    AIDS, Etics and Rights , GUP 100782

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2009).
    South-South cooperation as a complement to North-South cooperation: Development aid and AIDS in a Brazilian context , GUP 100730

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2009).
    The Brazilian AIDS governance: regional knowledge transfer, South-South cooperation, mechanisms for civil society participation and the quest for accountability , GUP 100773

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2009).
    The Brazilian Constitution announces the 'Right to Health for All'. Is universal access to AIDS medicine utopian? , GUP 100775

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2009).
    The Impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on civil society mobilization , GUP 100779

2008

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Håkan Thörn (2008).
    Introduction: The Politics of AIDS , GUP 70483

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2008).
    Kunskapsantropologi , GUP 82977

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Håkan Thörn (2008).
    The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society , GUP 70481

  • Åsa Stenman; Maj-Lis Follér (2008).
    Alternative Developments in the Andean Region 2018-2028 , GUP 111202

  • Håkan Thörn; Maj-Lis Follér (2008).
    Governing AIDS: Globalization, the state and civil society , GUP 70482

2007

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Edmé Domínguez Reyes (2007).
    Brazil and Mexico, The regional powers of Latin America , GUP 74458

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Åsa Stenman; Rolando Vázquez (2007).
    Etnicidad en América Latina: Relatios de colonialismo, identidad, resistencia y agencia , GUP 74465

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Åsa Stenman; Rolando Vàzquez (2007).
    Introducción 1101-4148, GUP 74473

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Edmé Domínguez Reyes; Åsa Stenman (2007).
    The Regional Powers of Latin America: Brazil and Mexico: an analysis of alternative developments 2017-2027 , GUP 111209

2006

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Åsa Stenman (2006).
    Latinamerika 2017-2027: En analys av framtida konfliktmönster och regionalt samarbete , GUP 111204

2005

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Håkan Thörn (2005).
    AIDS in the age of globalization - an introduction , GUP 33212

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2005).
    Civil society and HIV/AIDS in Brazil : the emergence of an AIDS policy , GUP 33213

  • Vicente Oieni; Maj-Lis Follér (2005).
    La batalla conceptual en América Latina : hacia una historia conceptual de los discursos políticos : introducción 1101-4148, GUP 33279

  • Håkan Thörn; Maj-Lis Follér (2005).
    No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization , GUP 31377

2004

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Gunnar Holmgren (2004).
    Health - social and cultural development indicators , GUP 33291

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2004).
    Intermedicalidade: A zona de contato criada por povos indígenas e porfissionais de saúde , GUP 74667

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2004).
    Local kowledge and community security , GUP 33290

2003

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2003).
    The "Third Task" Prospects of co-operation between Göteborg and Jadavpur Universities, in education and development , GUP 74774

2002

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Maria Eugenia Gonzalez (2002).
    Conocimiento, salud y derechos indígenas en la Amazonía : introducción 1101-4148, GUP 34873

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2002).
    Del conocimiento local y científico al conocimiento situado e híbrido - ejemplos de los shipibo-conibo del este peruano 1101-4148, GUP 34876

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2002).
    Latinamerika - det koloniala fotavtrycket som inte kan suddas ut , GUP 74792

2001

  • Roland Anrup; Ken Benson; Maj-Lis Follér (2001).
    Historia y memoria : introducción 1101-4148, GUP 34880

  • Ken Benson; Roland Anrup; Maj-Lis Follér (2001).
    Historia y memoria, Anales, Nueva época, nos. 3-4, Instituto iberoamericano, Göteborgs universitet, 282 sid. , GUP 34639

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2001).
    Debate on the paper by David Waltner-Toews 0102-311X, GUP 74784

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2001).
    Interactions between global processes and local health problems. A human ecology approach to health among indigenous groups in the Amazon 0102-311X, GUP 74780

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2001).
    Reviewing the Discourse of ecology and health among indigenous peoples in Amazonia ISBN 81-85264-28-7 ISSN 0970 9274, GUP 74791

2000

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2000).
    Are indigenous groups and local knowledge threatened in today's world society? , GUP 74840

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2000).
    Kunskap och Makt. Exempel från shipibo-conibo i östra Peru , GUP 74793

  • Maj-Lis Follér (2000).
    Långsiktigt arbete för att öka mångfalden , GUP 74794

1999

  • Jan Bärmark; Maj-Lis Follér (1999).
    Läkekonst i Tibet och Peru i ett kunskapsantropologiskt perspektiv , GUP 75739

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1999).
    Ethnic groups and the globalization process: Reflections on the Amazonian groups in Peru from a human ecological perspective , GUP 74966

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1999).
    Hälsa och sjukdom i ett socialt och naturhistoriskt sammanhang: Exempel från ursprungsfolk i Latinamerika , GUP 75736

1998

  • Anders Ellegård; Maj-Lis Follér; Inger Jalakas (1998).
    Människors meningn & myndigheters mätningar , GUP 75740

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1998).
    Protecting nature in Amazonia. Local knowledge as a counterpoint to globalization , GUP 74969

1997

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1997).
    A global health perspective on the Shibibo-Conibo in eastern Peru 0971 8923, GUP 74967

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1997).
    Epidemiologins behov av antropologin 0037-833X, GUP 75894

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1997).
    Ett brett perspektiv på hälsa, sjukdom och sjukvård 0037-833X, GUP 75898

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1997).
    Recension av Edward O. Wilsons självbiografi - Naturalist 0238-6025, GUP 75889

1996

  • Hans Arén; Maj-Lis Follér (1996).
    Koster - förort eller samhälle med egen bärkraft? , GUP 75741

  • Thorsten Ekblad; Maj-Lis Follér; Lars Fändriks; Guy Heyden (1996).
    Koster health: An interdisciplinary model for a holistic view on the condition of man, in accordance with the essence of Agenda 21 0350-6134, GUP 75238

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Lars O. Hansson (1996).
    Human ecology and health: Adaptations to a changing world , GUP 75227

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Martha J. Garrett; Lars O. Hansson (1996).
    Human ecology and health: Its development and central themes , GUP 75232

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Martha J. Garrett (1996).
    Modernization, health and local knowledge: The case of the cholera epidemic among the Shipibo-Conibo in eastern Peru , GUP 75233

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1996).
    Recension av Planetary Overload, Global Environmental Changes and the Health of the Human Species 1103-081X, GUP 75896

1995

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1995).
    Future health of indigenous people: A human ecology view and the case of the Amazonian Shipibo-Conibo 0016-3287, GUP 75237

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1995).
    Hälsa som erfarenhetskunskap: Ett humanekologiskt forskningsfält , GUP 75742

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1995).
    Vilken blir konsekvenserna av en ökad fattigdom i världen? 1100-4258, GUP 75743

1994

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1994).
    Cholera: Perception, knowledge and treatment - A study from the Shipibo-Conibo in eastern Peru , GUP 75239

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1994).
    Etik och fattigdom 0346-4679, GUP 75880

1993

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1993).
    Health, healing and illness among the Maya population in Yucatán, Mexico , GUP 75240

1992

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1992).
    Environment, lifestyle, and health: Report from the European workshop , GUP 75242

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1992).
    Rapport från Göteborgs Universitet 1100-4258, GUP 75885

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1992).
    Reflektioner över ett kulturmöte: Fältarbetet som kontext 0283-6025, GUP 75882

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1992).
    Research priorities related to traditional medicinal plants , GUP 75245

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1992).
    Social determinants of health and disease: the role of small-scale projects illustrated by the Koster health project in Sweden and Ametra in Peru 0102-311X, GUP 74789

1991

  • Jan Bärmark; Maj-Lis Follér (1991).
    Samtal om kunskapsantropologi , GUP 75887

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1991).
    Kosmologi och hälsa bland Shipibo-Conibo: Profiler och projekt , GUP 75886

1990

  • Maj-Lis Follér; Guy Heyden (1990).
    A new approach to interdisciplinary health studies: the Koster health project 0260-1060, GUP 75468

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1990).
    Environmental changes and human health: A study of the Shipibo-Conibo in eastern Peru , GUP 73199

1989

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1989).
    A new approach to community health 0277-9536, GUP 75469

1988

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1988).
    A human ecology approach: Medicinal plants in traditional medicine , GUP 75471

1987

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1987).
    Får vi lov , GUP 73643

1983

  • Maj-Lis Follér (1983).
    Mjöldrygans roll i Eleusiskulten: En kritisk granskning av G. Wassons bok "The road to Eleusis" , GUP 73652

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