Ssues like AIDS, pointing to the expert and advocacy networks involved and the ways issues are framed (e.g. Magnusson, 2007; J sson, 2014; cf. also Shiffman, 2009). Similarly, historians and others have started to explore the globalisation of chronic Mitochondrial division inhibitor 1MedChemExpress Mdivi-1 diseases and particular public health strategies like tobacco taxes over the last 50 years (e.g. Brown and Bell, 2008; Reubi, 2013; Weisz, 2014b). Another important part of this emerging body of work is the research carried out by anthropologists and geographers into the way ideas and practices associated with NCDs have been translated, resisted and re-appropriated when travelling to the global South. To illustrate, Livingston (2012, 2013) has pointed to the absence of pain relief medication and the very different understandings of pain in cancer wards in Botswana; while Lawhon and Herrick (2013; cf. also Herrick, 2013) have shown how alcohol control policies in Cape Town have been recast as an instrument to fight criminality rather than improve health. Others have looked into how the ideas and practices associated with NCDs have transformed subjectivities and notions of patienthood in the global South (e.g. Bunkenborg, 2003; Whyte, 2013; Whitmarsh, 2013; cf. also Whyte, 2012). While this emerging body of critical studies on NCDs in the global South is a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done before we can start making sense of current initiatives to problematise and govern the chronic disease epidemic in emerging economies. So, for example, while the role of expert networks and discursive framings in problematising NCDs in the global South needs to be further scrutinised, we also need to explore the technologies and materialities like epidemiological maps and models that make it possible to view chronic diseases as a development issue. Likewise, while the influence of the tobacco, alcohol and food companies in globalising risk factors associated with NCDs is at risk of being over-analysed (e.g. Yach and Bettcher, 2000; Stuckler and Siegel, 2011), we know very little about the role of the pharmaceutical industry and philanthropic foundations in creating new markets for vaccines and drugs to treat chronic diseases in the region (e.g. Wailoo et al., 2010; Towghi, 2013; cf. also Petryna et al., 2006). It would also be helpful to know more about the complex relationships that exist between current initiatives to tackle NCDs and ideas and traditions that have beencritical to the field of health and medicine such as post-colonialism, neoliberalism and securitisation (GSK089 web Collier and Lakoff, 2008; Elbe, 2010; Anderson, 2014). Last but not least, despite the efforts of some anthropologists (e.g. Livingston, 2005, 2008), we still understand very little about the impact of NCD-related interventions on existing inequalities and the everyday lives of the poor in the global South (Farmer, 2005). More generally, then, there is a need to know more about the types of places that produce chronic diseases in the global South and, in turn, the ways in which the politics of NCDs reform and reshape places and people in the name of risk management and disease control. The contributions in this special issue are an attempt to begin addressing these and other similar questions and themes. To locate these contributions within the broader critical social science literature on global health (e.g. Collier and Lakoff, 2008; Elbe, 2010; Weir and Mykhalovskiy, 2010; Stuckler and Siegel, 2011; Fassin, 2012; F.Ssues like AIDS, pointing to the expert and advocacy networks involved and the ways issues are framed (e.g. Magnusson, 2007; J sson, 2014; cf. also Shiffman, 2009). Similarly, historians and others have started to explore the globalisation of chronic diseases and particular public health strategies like tobacco taxes over the last 50 years (e.g. Brown and Bell, 2008; Reubi, 2013; Weisz, 2014b). Another important part of this emerging body of work is the research carried out by anthropologists and geographers into the way ideas and practices associated with NCDs have been translated, resisted and re-appropriated when travelling to the global South. To illustrate, Livingston (2012, 2013) has pointed to the absence of pain relief medication and the very different understandings of pain in cancer wards in Botswana; while Lawhon and Herrick (2013; cf. also Herrick, 2013) have shown how alcohol control policies in Cape Town have been recast as an instrument to fight criminality rather than improve health. Others have looked into how the ideas and practices associated with NCDs have transformed subjectivities and notions of patienthood in the global South (e.g. Bunkenborg, 2003; Whyte, 2013; Whitmarsh, 2013; cf. also Whyte, 2012). While this emerging body of critical studies on NCDs in the global South is a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done before we can start making sense of current initiatives to problematise and govern the chronic disease epidemic in emerging economies. So, for example, while the role of expert networks and discursive framings in problematising NCDs in the global South needs to be further scrutinised, we also need to explore the technologies and materialities like epidemiological maps and models that make it possible to view chronic diseases as a development issue. Likewise, while the influence of the tobacco, alcohol and food companies in globalising risk factors associated with NCDs is at risk of being over-analysed (e.g. Yach and Bettcher, 2000; Stuckler and Siegel, 2011), we know very little about the role of the pharmaceutical industry and philanthropic foundations in creating new markets for vaccines and drugs to treat chronic diseases in the region (e.g. Wailoo et al., 2010; Towghi, 2013; cf. also Petryna et al., 2006). It would also be helpful to know more about the complex relationships that exist between current initiatives to tackle NCDs and ideas and traditions that have beencritical to the field of health and medicine such as post-colonialism, neoliberalism and securitisation (Collier and Lakoff, 2008; Elbe, 2010; Anderson, 2014). Last but not least, despite the efforts of some anthropologists (e.g. Livingston, 2005, 2008), we still understand very little about the impact of NCD-related interventions on existing inequalities and the everyday lives of the poor in the global South (Farmer, 2005). More generally, then, there is a need to know more about the types of places that produce chronic diseases in the global South and, in turn, the ways in which the politics of NCDs reform and reshape places and people in the name of risk management and disease control. The contributions in this special issue are an attempt to begin addressing these and other similar questions and themes. To locate these contributions within the broader critical social science literature on global health (e.g. Collier and Lakoff, 2008; Elbe, 2010; Weir and Mykhalovskiy, 2010; Stuckler and Siegel, 2011; Fassin, 2012; F.