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TY - JOUR
T1 - In the shadow of the healing rainbow
T2 - belonging and identity in the regulation of traditional medicine in Mauritius
AU - Urquiza-Haas, Nayeli
AU - Cloatre, Emilie
PY - 2023/8/31
Y1 - 2023/8/31
N2 - This article explores how traditional healing is regulated in the island of Mauritius. Drawing on postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and their encounter with socio-legal studies, it maps the emergence of the Ayurveda and Other Traditional Medicines Act of 1990, pointing out the selectivity of the notion of ‘tradition’ and its entanglement to broader nation-making processes, born in the process of its independence from Britain. While the social and political histories embedded in the text of the law favour the authorisation of some healing traditions and not others, outside its scope, other practices persist, and triggering competing visions about the island’s healing futures. By bringing into the frame the plurality of Mauritius’s healing landscape, where different traditions coexist despite their ambiguous legal status, this article accounts for the tensions in the regulation of traditional medicine, where the law produces its own inclusions and exclusions, and mundane legalities of everyday healing become sites of broader political questioning about the relationship between law, science, and nation-making.
AB - This article explores how traditional healing is regulated in the island of Mauritius. Drawing on postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and their encounter with socio-legal studies, it maps the emergence of the Ayurveda and Other Traditional Medicines Act of 1990, pointing out the selectivity of the notion of ‘tradition’ and its entanglement to broader nation-making processes, born in the process of its independence from Britain. While the social and political histories embedded in the text of the law favour the authorisation of some healing traditions and not others, outside its scope, other practices persist, and triggering competing visions about the island’s healing futures. By bringing into the frame the plurality of Mauritius’s healing landscape, where different traditions coexist despite their ambiguous legal status, this article accounts for the tensions in the regulation of traditional medicine, where the law produces its own inclusions and exclusions, and mundane legalities of everyday healing become sites of broader political questioning about the relationship between law, science, and nation-making.
KW - Traditional medicine
KW - regulation
KW - Mauritius
KW - Ayurveda
KW - technofutures
KW - legalities
U2 - 10.1080/10383441.2023.2249708
DO - 10.1080/10383441.2023.2249708
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 236
EP - 258
JO - Griffith Law Review
JF - Griffith Law Review
SN - 1038-3441
IS - 2
ER -