Spy, Patrol, Police: Black Life and the Production of Epidemiological Knowledge from Atlanta, Georgia to Freetown, Sierra Leone

Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series

Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series | Adia Benton

Friday, February 12, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific Time)

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Spy, Patrol, Police: Black Life and the Production of Epidemiological Knowledge from Atlanta, Georgia to Freetown, Sierra Leone

Adia Benton is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University. She won the 2017 Rachel Carson Prize for her book HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her talk, entitled "Spy, Patrol, Police: Black Life and the Production of Epidemiological Knowledge from Atlanta, Georgia to Freetown, Sierra Leone," considers the role of militarized police action during the West African Ebola outbreak and in the urban United States. This project explores the tensions in the fields of public health and medicine between the rhetoric and practices of safety and care and those of security and discipline.

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Nina Harawa is a Professor-in-Residence with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Associate Director for Research, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s Center for AIDS Research Education and Services (Drew CARES).

Samar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Organizers: UCLA International Institute Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series

Co-sponsors: UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities (Semel Institute), David Geffen School of Medicine; Global Health Program, David Geffen School of Medicine; Department of Anthropology; UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

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Duration: 1:30:39