Mosquito Trails by Alex M Nading

Mosquito Trails by Alex M Nading

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.

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ISBN 13	9780520282629
ISBN 10	0520282620
Title	Mosquito Trails
Author	Alex M Nading
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2014-08-22
Number of pages	288
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