Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)

The Political Life of an Epidemic

Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the view of epidemics as purely biological events, this study focuses on the political life of Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic of 2008â 9, revealing how the crisis, caused by this preventable disease, had profound implications for political institutions and citizenship in the country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489102
• ISBN-10: 1108489109
• Artikelnr.: 58528304

Autorenporträt

Simukai Chigudu is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was awarded the biennial Audrey Richards Prize for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies examined at a UK university. He is the author of several articles in leading academic journals including African Affairs, Critical African Studies, and Health Policy and Planning. He worked as a medical doctor before moving into academia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Stories and politics of cholera; 1. The making of urban
(dis)order: situating the cholera outbreak in historical perspective; 2.
'When people eat shit': cholera and the collapse of Zimbabwe's public
health infrastructure; 3. Emergency politics: cholera as a national
disaster; 4. The salvation agenda: medical humanitarianism and the response
to cholera; 5. 'People were dying like flies': the social contours of
cholera in Harare's high-density townships; Conclusion. More to admire than
despise?