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Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex 
Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:00
Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00 - 18:00
- 📍 Venue: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography
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Abstract
Contemporary imaginaries of ‘planetary health’ in the Anthropocene claim to address pressing global-scale predicaments, yet are contested by knowledges from different times, places and scales. In West Africa and beyond, I ask – are anthropocenic reconfigurations obscuring creative, everyday relationships between people and non-human natures in dealing with infectious threats and maintaining healthy lives and ecologies? Who is gaining and losing? How can we open up the politics of planetary health to a greater appreciation of diverse socio-natures, plurality and uncertainty?
Series This talk is part of the Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography series.
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