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In the Time of Ebola
- Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone
Engelsk Paperback
In the Time of Ebola
- Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone
Engelsk Paperback

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The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. In the Time of Ebola is his account of the epidemic, centering on the residents of a neighborhood swept up in the emergency. Lipton follows the lives of young men and women over a period of seven years, revealing what the epidemic looked like on the ground. He explores its causes, impacts, and legacies in a place where crisis might be considered the norm, not the exception. The emergency was disruptive and challenging, not least due to the short-term international response. Yet for many youths Ebola was a time of unusual clarity on the ambiguities around care, work, and coming of age experienced in a context of vast economic and social inequalities. Lipton shows how residents of this historically cosmopolitan West African city drew on centuries-old frameworks for managing foreign intervention. In the Time of Ebola questions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing, researching, and responding to emergencies that make the home, the family, and "ordinary life" their starting point.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501778100
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501778102
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2024
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2024
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