Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak

ISBN-13: 9781433166150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

Marouf Hasian Jr

Opis

Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Understanding the (Post)colonial Features of Ebola Outbreaks - Colonial Ecologies of Fear, Contested Infectious Disease Control, and a Genealogical Overview of West African Stigmatization, 1800-1945 - Post-World War II Decolonization and the Discursive Framing of Earlier Ebola Outbreaks, 1945-2012 - Médecins Sans Frontières and the First Interventions During the Global Ebola Crisis, December 2013-May 2014 - Memories of the Militarization and Securitization of the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, June 2014-March 2015 - Nina Pham, Contesting CDC Claims and Spreading Fears of Contagion in the Global North, September 2014-January 2015 - Lessons Learned? A Postcolonial Reading of Futuristic Western Ebola Tales

O autorze

Marouf Hasian, Jr. is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. He has a J.D. from Campbell University in North Carolina and a Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Georgia. He was one of the recent recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities Award at the University of Utah. Prof. Hasian has published 19 books and many journal articles.