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SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 305, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115066
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Global health; Fanon; Ebola; Trust; Africa
The scholarship of Frantz Fanon, recognized as a unique and necessary intervention for critical analyses of the (post)colonial condition, is largely ignored in global health research. This article demonstrates the relevance of Fanon's work by analyzing the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak response in West Africa. Fanon's insights help understand community reactions and public health officials' behavior during the response, enabling a framework to better intervene in future epidemics in the Global South.
The scholarship of Frantz Fanon has been recognized across numerous disciplines as a unique and necessary intervention for critical analyses of the (post)colonial condition. Yet, thus far, his oeuvre has largely been ignored in global health research. In this article we introduce and demonstrate the relevance of Fanon's work for the field of global health. To illustrate, we draw from Fanon's conceptual framework and observations to analyze the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak response in West Africa. During this Ebola epidemic, although not necessarily as widespread as Western media made it seem, numerous instances of resistance-sometimes violent-were levied by members of the community toward foreign outbreak response teams. In this article, we argue that the keen insights proffered by Fanon more than half a century ago help facilitate a deeper understanding of some of the reactions of community members and public health officials during the Ebola response. In calling attention to colonial histories and structural relations of power, poverty, and violence, Fanon's work can help us to effectively move towards decolonizing global health interventions, thus providing a framework with which to better understand and more humanely intervene in future epidemic outbreaks in the Global South.
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