Neglected malarias: The frontlines and back alleys of global health

types: ArticleAmong the public health community, ‘all except malaria’ is often shorthand for neglected tropical diseases. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s cause ce´le`bre, malaria receives a tremendous amount of funding, as well as scientific and policy attention. Malaria has, however, divergent biological, behavioural and socio-political guises; it is multiply implicated in the environments we inhabit and in the ways in which we inhabit them. The malaria that focuses our attention crops up in the back alleys of Dar es Salaam, brought into being by local labour and municipal governance – a version of malaria that, we argue, is increasingly excluded in current eradication campaigns. This article considers the cycles of public health amnesia, memory and neglect that construe the parasitological exchange between man and mosquito. It begins by exploring the political concerns and technical capacities that have transformed malaria into a global enemy. Combining these historical accounts with ethnographic material, we suggest how malaria is disentangled from or conflated with particular places. Ultimately, our aim is to reflect upon the relationship between scale of malaria control and its social consequence, attending to the actors and relations that fall outside of contemporary global public health policy

Migration Control, the Local Economy and Violence in the Burkina Faso and Niger Borderland

The externalized European “migration management” in West Africa has technologically modernized and militarized border posts. This threatens visa-free travel, freedom of settlement and borderland economies in parts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It has interrupted historical mobility patterns, depleted the diversity of mobility practices and criminalized regional economies. At the same time, one can observe intensified and asymmetrical violent conflict in some of these borderlands. By taking the Kantchari-Makalondi borderland as a case study we analysed the relations between migration policies, insecurity, forced immobility and economic decline. Our observations and interviews with migrants, traders, security forces and borderlanders lead us to question conventional narratives on border control and African mobilities as a binary relation between Africa and Europe. Instead, they foreground the multiple practices of (im)mobility in these spaces: the circulation and blockage of travelers, merchandise, surveillance technologies, and military interventions and their impact on security and livelihoods

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Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 117-Parklarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

The impact of literacy-focused CPD on the self-perceptions of expertise in primary school teachers

This study examines the impact of extended professional development in early literacy acquisition on the self-perceptions and emotions of experienced teachers of 5 to 6 year old pupils. The story of the participants' learning journeys is told through a series of short thematic sections, reflections grounded in critical incident theory and an extended vignette. Teacher-participants expand their knowledge base and modify teaching practice consistent with the specific professional development, though this study is not principally concerned with measures of either of these. Of particular interest is the impact of CPD on the development of participants' self-perceptions in relation to expertise, on their emotional life, and the relationship between these in the drive to attain their learning goals. I hypothesise that positive affect is sufficient to sustain participants through the lowest emotional phases and that these low points can act as catalysts for further theoretical change. Each participating teacher was enrolled in year-long continuing professional development, either Local Authority led training in systematic, synthetic phonics or Reading Recovery Initial Professional Development (as part of the Every Child a Reader initiative) led by a teacher leader specialist. Adopting a social constructivist approach I used a range of qualitative research methods to garner data demonstrating the influence of the respective CPD throughout the focus period in 2008-9: a series of semi-structured interviews, lesson observations followed by jointly stimulated reflection and participants' reflective e-journals. I have taken a grounded theory type approach to data analysis

Towards a more-than-human approach to tree health

New ways of working and thinking in relation to tree health and plant biosecurity are required. The climate is changing and the number of pests and diseases is increasing. A review of the social science literature on plant health reveals that scholars are not quite sure what this ‘new thinking’ might entail. In this chapter, we begin the process of re-imagining tree health by starting with the trees and our research engagement with them. Trees are acknowledged in this chapter as never static, but rather fluid, shape-shifters, translated across time and space. Health and disease are revealed as relational, and a fixed approach to tree health management won’t work. In a world of rapid change, this way of working is not just relevant for trees

Who bites back first?:Malaria control in Ghana and the politics of co-existence

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