University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

Understanding social resistance to Ebola response in the forest region of the Republic of Guinea: an anthropological perspective

Version 2 2023-06-12, 06:38
Version 1 2023-06-09, 00:35
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-12, 06:38 authored by James FairheadJames Fairhead
Why did Ebola response initiatives in the Upper Guinea Forest Region regularly encounter resistance, occasionally violent? Extending existing explanations concerning local and humanitarian “culture” and “structural violence,” and drawing on previous anthropological fieldwork and historical and documentary research, this article argues that Ebola disrupted four intersecting but precarious social accommodations that had hitherto enabled radically different and massively unequal worlds to coexist. The disease and the humanitarian response unsettled social accommodations that had become established between existing burial practices and hospital medicine, local political structures and external political subjection, mining interests and communities, and those suspected of “sorcery” and those suspicious of them.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Published version

Journal

African Studies Review

ISSN

0002-0206

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Issue

3

Volume

59

Page range

7-31

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-17

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-17

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC