Published by Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, November 24, 2014. In August of this year, when the Ebola outbreak escalated in Liberia and a state of emergency had been declared for the country, Fatu Kekula, a young Liberian nursing student, improvised personal protective equipment (PPE) …
By Guillaume Lachenal, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, October 31, 2014. A French version of this piece was originally published in Libération on 18 September 2014. “It is useless to laboriously interpret disaster movies in terms of their relation to an ‘objective’ social crisis or even to an ‘objective’ phantasm of …
By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang, published in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnote, October 29, 2014. On a steamy mid-August afternoon, Mariatu Kargbo, a Sierra Leonian expat residing in Beijing, stood at the front of a packed hotel ballroom. As reported by Xinhua News (新华网), Kargbo addressed the crowd, saying: I know …
By Sara M Bergstresser This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes A great deal has happened since the first Web Roundup on Ebola. The epidemic has spread both in West Africa and globally, and material about Ebola has spread throughout the web. According to the CDC, as …
By Janina Kehr This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes A few months ago, the independent Spanish online newspaper El Diario published a cartoon entitled “Ebola in Madrid”. It showed a health worker, camouflaged in a green protection suit, wearing a white head shield and goggles, leaning over a …
Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis By Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster By Guillaume Lachenal From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang …
Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dangerous cultural practices. The contributors to this Hot Spots series offer their personal and …