Mosquitopia (eBook, PDF)

The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Redaktion: Hall, Marcus; Tamïr, Dan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000435085
• Artikelnr.: 62264692

Autorenporträt

Marcus Hall is an environmental historian and professor at the University of Zurich. In exploring changing human relationships with the natural world, Hall has turned to such subjects as restoring, rewilding, invasive species, warfare, earth art, chronobiology, malaria, and parasites. His books include Earth Repair, Restoration and History, Crossing Mountains, and (with Marco Armiero) Nature and History in Modern Italy. Dan Tamïr is environmental historian and research associate at the University of Zurich. His research examines the global circulation and the local adaptations of ideologies, species and resources. His current research focuses on the global political cooperation in targeting mosquito-borne diseases during the past century.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD by Clifford Mutero Part 1: COULD WE (SHOULD WE) ELIMINATE
MOSQUITOES? 1. Killing Mosquitoes? Think before you swat By Marcus Hall;
Dan Tamir 2. The Mosquito: An introduction By Frances M. Hawkes; Richard J.
Hopkins 3. Disappearance, Invasion and Resistance: Multispecies
ethnography, insect control and loss By Uli Beisel; Carsten Wergin Part 2:
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE 4. The Long Arc of Mosquito Control By James Webb,
Jr. 5. Domesticated Mosquitoes: Colonization and the growth of mosquito
habitats in North America By Urmi Engineer Willoughby 6. Could We / Should
We Eradicate Mosquitoes? The case of the yellow fever vector By Nancy Leys
Stepan 7. Fighting Nuisance on the Northern Fringe: Controlling mosquitoes
in Britain between the World Wars By Peter Coates Part 3: KNOW THY ENEMY
8. The Mosquito and Malaria: Would mosquito control alone eliminate the
disease? By Willem Takken 9. Living with Mosquitoes in Disease-free
Contexts: Attitudes and perceptions of risk in English wetlands By Adriana
Ford; Mary Gearey; Tim G. Acott 10. Little one I hold my breath So you
can't find me By Kerry Morrison; Helmut Lemke Part 4: KNOW THYSELF 11.
Enacting Politics with Mosquitoes: Beyond eradication and control By Jean
Segata 12. Eradication against Ambivalence By Alex Nading 13. The Innocent
Mosquito? The Environmental Ethics of Mosquito Eradication By Anna Wienhues
Part 5: IMPROVING HUMAN-MOSQUITO RELATIONSHIPS 14. Mosquito Control:
Success, failure and expectation in a context of arboviruses expansion and
emergence By Isabelle Dusfour; Sarah C. Chaney 15. Designer mosquitoes By
Ramya M. Rajagopalan 16. The Mosquitome By Frederic Simard 17. Mosquito
Utopias and Dystopias: A concluding dispatch from the front lines By Indra
Vythilingam AFTERWORD By Ashwani Kumar