…to create a “multi-stage regional design competition to promote resilience for the Sandy-affected region” called Rebuild by Design (RBD) (Task Force 2013:1). The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…

In 2009 a US$2 billion project to pave a highway through the southern Peruvian Andes was nearing completion. For the preceding four years, heavy machinery had trundled its way up…

…helped to establish preparedness as a central problem and norm for global health. A suspected Ebola patient being moved from a plane in Pretoria, South Africa during the Zaire outbreak…

…Francisco, Chinatown, rural South Africa, the docks of Glasgow, the chawls of Bombay, and the Sino-Russian border. Its agglomerative logic lets us slice across scales and unmake imperial territorializations that…

…to services such as health care and finance. Sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia are notably prominent in the geography of these devices and provide the setting…

If there’s one thing that the continuing Ebola outbreak in West Africa should have taught us by now, it’s this: Global public health per se doesn’t exist. At least not…

…tracking outbreak in West Africa April [n/d]: Samaritan’s Purse missionary hospital in New Kru Town slum in Monrovia, “Eternal Love Winning Africa” (ELWA), sets up isolation unit for treating Ebola….

…to maintain: codes and calibrating fluid; lancets to draw blood from fingertips (for which some people substituted pins or sewing needles); and lithium and other specialized imported batteries, for which…

…Lomax believed that human beings were “revising and reorganizing” their behavior each and every day, and then passing on their collective wisdom “as parts of symbolic cultural codes, rather than…

…a consequence, consumers ignore or cannot see the social, economic, and environmental damage that these food systems cause. For the promoters of alternatives, scaling food systems down increases consumer awareness…

…epizootics and emergency public health strategies ranging from culling to trade embargoes. Transporting dead meat was promoted as more safe, efficient, and humane, but this raised the question of decay….

…an insurer in south Florida, a hurricane that caused losses for one insured property would also cause losses for other policyholders in its portfolio. In other words, in contrast to…

…as a Google-funded enterprise that collects and tests samples of African bush meat for the emergence of zoonotic disease based on the premise that such a system can “stop the…

…humans in rice farming areas in South China create a perfect environment for the mutations and reassortment of flu viruses. Because SARS had caused both public health and governance crises…

…space of invasiveness for South Asian workers. During an interview, the PRT consultants for Masdar City explained to me that the Abu Dhabi authorities enjoyed the pod cars specifically because…