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Autore: | Hirsch Lioba |
Titolo: | Antiblackness and Global Health : A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Pluto Press, , 2024 |
©2024 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (0 pages) |
Disciplina: | 362.19692 |
Soggetto topico: | Medical / Public Health |
History / Africa / West | |
Social Science / Black Studies (Global) | |
Social sciences | |
Soggetto non controllato: | colonialism - racism and global health - racism - blackness - Covid-19 - Global Health - ebola crisis - Freetown - Sierra Leone - antiblackness and global health - Black Studies and global health - colonial imaginaries - anti - Colonial infrastructure - colonial medicine - health interventions - West Africa - Black Studies - health humanitarianism - racism and medicine - antiblackness - global health crises - 2024-2016 ebola epidemic - pandemic responses |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Examines how colonial mentalities and infrastructures shaped the response to the West African Ebola epidemic. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Antiblackness and Global Health |
ISBN: | 0-7453-4630-8 |
0-7453-4632-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910864279403321 |
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