Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic [electronic resource] : towards a political economy / edited by Ibrahim Abdullah and Ismail Rashid.

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A comprehensive critique of the socio-economic issues revealed by the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus. From 2013 to 2015, over eleven thousand people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rashid, Ismail O. D., 1963- (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: African Leadership Centre
Other Authors: Abdullah, Ibrahim (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books Ltd, [2017]
Series:Security and society in Africa.
Subjects:
Epidemics > Africa, West > History > 21st century.
Ebola virus disease > Economic aspects > Africa, West.
Public health > Economic aspects > Africa, West.
Ebola virus disease.
Epidemics.
Politics, Practical.
Public health administration.
Online Access:
Bloomsbury Open Collections: African Studies and International Development (Backlist): 2017 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
Bloomsbury Zed Books African Studies 2017-2020: 2017 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
Variant Title:
Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic: towards a political economy
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic
  • Pt. I, The Regional History and Origins of Ebola :
  • 1. Ebola and regional history: connections and common experiences / Allen M. Howard
  • 2. Eurocentric epistemology: questioning the narrative on the epidemic's origin / Chernoh Alph M.Bah.
  • Pt. II, The Neoliberal Affliction: Different Countries, Similar Convulsions :
  • 3. Interpreting the health, social, and political dimensions of the Ebola crisis in Guinea / Alpha Amadou Bano Barry
  • 4. The political economy of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia / George Klay Kieh, Jr.
  • 5. Confronting Ebola with bare hands: Sierra Leone's health sector on the eve of the Ebola epidemic / Ibrahim Abdullah, Abou Bakarr Kamara.
  • Pt. III, Development, Gender, and its Discontents
  • 6. Structural violence, public health, and the militarization of assistance / Julia Amos
  • 7. "I am a woman. How can I not help?": gender performance and the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone / Aisha Fofana Ibrahim
  • 8. "God bless WhatsApp": neoliberal Ebola and the struggle for autonomous space in Sierra Leone / Ibrahim Abdullah.
  • Pt. IV, Transnational Actors and the Politics of Crisis Response
  • 9. African Union, ECOWAS, and the international political economy of the emergency response to Ebola / Semiha Abdulmelik
  • 10. The World Health Organization and the Ebola epidemic / Meredeth Turshen, Tefera Gezmu
  • 11. The Ebola epidemic moment in US-(West) Africa relations / Fodei Batty
  • 12. UNMEER and the international response to the Ebola epidemic / Ismail Rashid.