Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides.
Gregg Mitman
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It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
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“Travel bans don’t stop viruses, they stop solidarity.” Dr. Githinji Gitahi
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch!
It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current
#envhist #envhum
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Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global health
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...
A brilliant new study of the history of rats and plague by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social focused on the historically neglected case of the third plague pandemic's impact on Mauritius: "Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure" (OA) www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social
“An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers
Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick
#animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
What Paul Farmer told me once:
"People, when they are sick, are not looking to be sprayed, controlled, counselled, told about bush meat...they are looking to survive, and when they see the quality of care is not good, they are going to flee...
Control without care is what amplified Ebola epidemic"
