The Power of Parasites

Malaria as (un)conscious strategy

Dalia Iskander (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

217 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-16-6763-3 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives. It uniquely explores the experiences of local government leaders working towards sustainably developing this last ecological frontier, health workers trying to meet international targets to eliminate malaria, and Pälawan people trying to keep their bodies, social relations and the cosmos in careful balance. In exquisite detail, Dr Dalia Iskander shows how malaria emerged from, and was intrinsic to, a whole host of strategically-orientated social practices that were enacted in as well as around the disease’s name, as people worked day-to-day to gain power in different guises in different arenas.

Dr Dalia Iskander is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Practices of Oppression.- Chapter 3 Practices of Progress.- Chapter 4 Practices of Development.- Chapter 5 Practices of Professionalization.- Chapter 6 Practices of Equilibrium.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	IX, 217 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Anthropology • indigenous people • Malaria • Philippines • Power
ISBN-10	981-16-6763-2 / 9811667632
ISBN-13	978-981-16-6763-3 / 9789811667633
Zustand	Neuware