Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health.
Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across the landscape of global health in Sierra Leone, showing how this history underpinned the international response to Ebola. The book moves from the material and atmospheric traces of colonialism and enslavement in Freetown, to the forms of knowledge presented in colonial archives and in contemporary expert accounts, to disease control and care practices.
As the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, health inequalities around the world disproportionately affect people of African descent. This book aims to equip critical scholars, medical and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers and health activists with the tools and knowledge to challenge antiblackness in global health practice and politics. The book argues that Black Studies can inform future research on medical interventions in Africa by unpacking postcolonial silences, centring Black perspectives and highlighting the endurance of colonial infrastructures in the present.
| ISBN: | 9780745346281 |
| Publication date: | 20th June 2024 |
| Author: | Lioba Hirsch |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press an imprint of Knowledge Unlatched |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Anthropology, Culture and Society |
| Genres: |
Politics and government Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism Social and cultural anthropology Epidemiology and Medical statistics Colonialism and imperialism Cultural studies Health systems and services Political economy Public health and preventive medicine Globalization Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality |