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Antiblackness and global health : a response to Ebola in the colonial wake / Lioba Hirsch.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hirsch, Lioba, author.
Series:
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Anthropology, Culture and Society Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ebola virus disease.
Sierra Leone.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (0 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
London, England : Pluto Press, [2024]
Summary:
Examines how colonial mentalities and infrastructures shaped the response to the West African Ebola epidemic.
Contents:
Cover
Contents
Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction: Thinking Towards Black Humanity in Global Health
1. Place, Weather and Disease Control in (Post)Colonial Freetown
2. Colonial Mobilities and Infrastructures: The Production of (Anti)Blackness
3. Thinking and Practising Care: Space, Risk and Racialisation in Ebola Treatment Centres
4. Wakefulness: Epistemic Spaces, Flows and Epigrammatic Antiblackness
5. Thinking Global Health Otherwise
List of Interviewees
Notes
References
Archival Sources
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780745346304
0745346308
9780745346328
0745346324
OCLC:
1434149947

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