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WiSe 20/21: Global Health and Pandemic Ecologies

Nasima Selim

Hinweise für Studierende

Für Studierende ab dem 5. Semester!

Kommentar

Pandemics in the twenty-first century are not only global public health crises. They are constitutive of biopolitical, socioeconomic, and ecological crises (Brown 2020). In this undergraduate course, pandemics will be explored as “zoonotic ecosyndemics” (Singer 2014) among others.
The course will revolve around ethnographic case studies and think pieces from the global South and North with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches from medical anthropology, cultural epidemiology, science and technology studies, and social history. Students will be introduced to both multispecies and humanist ethnographies to understand pandemic ecologies in the more than human world. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Key References
- Brown, Kate. 2020. The Pandemic is not a Natural Disaster. The Coronavirus isn't just a Public-Health Crisis. It's an Ecological One.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-pandemic-is-not-a-natural-disaster. Last access: 13/04/2020.
- Singer, Merrill. 2014. Zoonotic Ecosyndemics and Multi-Species Ethnography. In: Anthropological Quarterly, 87(4), 1279-1309.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43652747.pdf Schließen