Race and the spatialisation of risk during the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic.
Lioba A Hirsch;
(2020)
Race and the spatialisation of risk during the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic.
Health & place, 67.
102499-.
ISSN 1353-8292
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102499
This paper examines the spatial navigation of risk by international health responders working in Ebola Treatment Centres (ETCs) during the West African Ebola epidemic. Drawing on Black studies and geographies it argues for a race-conscious analysis of spatial strategies of risk aversion in order to highlight the geographical, postcolonial and racial inequalities at the heart of the West African Ebola response. Based on interviews with international health responders to Liberia and Sierra Leone, it argues that the spatial organisation of ETCs perpetuated non-equivalence between Black and white lives and contributed to the normalisation of Black suffering and death.
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