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SUMMARY:Geographies of Knowledge Annual Lecture: Configuring and Contestin
 g Planetary Health: Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease - Professor
  Melissa Leach\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex
DTSTART:20191112T170000Z
DTEND:20191112T181500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Contemporary imaginaries of ‘planetary health’ and ‘one 
 health’ call upon new combinations of knowledge to address pressing glob
 al-scale predicaments. These configurations are illustrative of broader pl
 anetary imaginaries in the Anthropocene\, yet are contested by knowledges 
 from different times\, places and scales. Focusing on ideas and actions ar
 ound infectious diseases\, their ecologies and socialities\, and drawing o
 n examples from the ethnography of zoonoses – diseases passed from anima
 ls to people - in West Africa\, I address what anthropocenic reconfigurati
 ons are obscuring and marginalising – including creative ways that peopl
 e interrelate with non-human natures in living and dealing with disease. I
  argue for an opening-up of planetary (health) imaginaries to greater appr
 eciation of local socio-natures in all their diversity\, and for a politic
 isation of our engagements with ecologies and non-human natures that bette
 r appreciates plurality and uncertainty. 
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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