Mosquito Trails
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animal borne illness
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community health workers
dengue endemic communities
dengue fever
dengue virus
diagnosis
disease
economic change
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ethnographic research
experiments
fever
global health
global pandemic
health care
high fever
illness
medical
medical anthropology
medical conditions
mosquito
mosquito borne disease
political change
political ecology
poverty
science
science and math
skin rash
technology
the politics of entanglement
theoretical
tropical disease
urban nicaragua
virus
Product details
- ISBN 9780520282629
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, Mosquito Trails tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Blending theory from medical anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Nading develops the concept of "the politics of entanglement" to describe how Nicaraguans strive to remain alive to the world around them despite global health strategies that seek to insulate them from their environments. This innovative ethnography illustrates the continued significance of local environmental histories, politics, and household dynamics to the making and unmaking of a global pandemic.
Alex M. Nading is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.
