War must be declared on all the tsetse flies. Environmental Sleeping Sickness Control in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900-1920
At the beginning of the 20th century, sleeping sickness epidemics broke out in various parts of colonial Africa.Particularly in the densely-populated areas along the shores and on the islands of Lake Victoria, the disease spread unhampered and caused escalating death tolls.Colonial responses to the epidemic combined pharmaceutical with ecological techniques of disease control, turning the region into a testing ground for a new type of environmental medical intervention.These programs to combat sleeping sickness were closely tied to colonial governance.Yet colonial scientists, physicians, and administrators depended largely on local knowledge.This paper examines entanglements between medical concerns and colonial governance and sheds light on the ways racial thinking permeated scientific conceptions of nature and disease.Through examining paper trails of bureaucratic procedures alongside scientific practices, it seeks to explore tensions between colonial medicine and local expertise as well as colonial dimensions of environmental knowledge production.
Sarah Ehlers
University of Leicester/University of California, Los Angeles
国际会议
北京
英文
1-28
2017-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）