Open AccessColonial Bio-Politics andMedical Mission inNWFP: A Case ofDr. Pennell of Bannu Medical Mission
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
fwu journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.131
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1995-1272
DOI - 10.51709/fw1272j/fall2020/1
Subject(s) - colonialism , biopower , politics , power (physics) , constitution , political science , sociology , gender studies , law , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper examines the colonial project of social control of the Pashtun body as seen through Foucauldian framework of biopower. This paper initiates debate into colonial health politics of NWFP and explores the biopolitical logic as to how the Pasthun subjectivities as medicalizable objects were constituted within the colonial missionary medicine discourses.It examines the ontological consequences of such constructions. It further aims to explore the co-constitution of colonial agents and the authority of the missionary doctorover the body. This paper delvesinto the myriad of strategies and sites of medical intervention, as hospital, medical camp, home, school, body, culture, race and gender. It takes up in-depth analysis of the works of Dr. Pennell i.e. Mission Hospital Bannu and Life among Wild Tribes. The study proposes that the relations of colonial power with the Pashtun body as embedded in the medical missionary discourse were biopolitical in nature.