Seminar om ebola: Det gik skidt denne gang og hvordan næste gang?

AFRICA SEMINAR – Engaging Ebola

TID: Onsdag d. 9 september, kl. 15.15 – 17.00

STED: Center for Afrika Studier (CAS), Auditorium 12, 4. sal, Købmagergade 46, København K.

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AFRICA SEMINAR – Engaging Ebola

TID: Onsdag d. 9 september, kl. 15.15 – 17.00

STED: Center for Afrika Studier (CAS), Auditorium 12, 4. sal, Købmagergade 46, København K.

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Vesten med hænderne for øjnene

Despite a decades-long scientific knowledge of notable prevalence of Ebola anti-bodies in the Liberian and neighbouring West African populations, the recent epidemic of Ebola in the region seemed to appear out of the blue.

Early during the epidemic, Mats Utas and other experts on Liberia and Sierra Leone, advocated for urgent redirection of aid towards the Ebola emergency. However little happened and it took several months until the “West” understood the magnitude of the epidemic.

Eventually substantial amounts of international aid were redirected to fight Ebola, but it came too late, and only after a deluge of dystopic media reports and a few infected “white” people.

This lecture focuses on how inadequate flows of information from government to citizens increasingly became a risk factor but also how socio-cultural issues went from being viewed as the main reason for the proliferation of the virus, to a key solution.

Liberia and Sierra Leone may be beyond their first large Ebola epidemic, but the lecture asks what lessons have been learned and if and how another epidemic in the region and elsewhere on the continent, will be dealt with differently.

Se også

http://globalnyt.dk/content/who-chef-i-bodsgang-efter-ebolaen-vi-var-alt-langsomme

Om Mats Utas

Mats Utas is associate professor in cultural anthropology at Uppsala University, and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute where he has been heading the research cluster on ‘Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation’.  

He has conducted research, and over extended periods of time lived, in Liberia and Sierra Leone – the two countries mainly affected in the Ebola crisis – since 1996.

Utas has published widely in academic journals and books with a main focus on conflict and civil wars, as well as on urban youth and African conflicts and informal power: Big Men and networks” (Zed Books 2012). 

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