Three Acts of Resistance during the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola Epidemic
LE MARCIS, Frédéric
Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes [TransVIHMI]
Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique [TRIANGLE]
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Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes [TransVIHMI]
Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique [TRIANGLE]
LE MARCIS, Frédéric
Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes [TransVIHMI]
Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique [TRIANGLE]
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Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes [TransVIHMI]
Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique [TRIANGLE]
Language
en
Article de revue
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Journal of humanitarian affairs. 2019-05-01, vol. 1, n° 2, p. 23-31
Manchester University Press
English Abstract
Community engagement is commonly regarded as a crucial entry point for gaining access and securing trust during humanitarian emergencies. In this article, we present three case studies of community engagement encounters ...Read more >
Community engagement is commonly regarded as a crucial entry point for gaining access and securing trust during humanitarian emergencies. In this article, we present three case studies of community engagement encounters during the West African Ebola outbreak. They represent strategies commonly implemented by the humanitarian response to the epidemic: communication through comités de veille villageois in Guinea, engagement with NGO-affiliated community leadership structures in Liberia and indirect mediation to chiefs in Sierra Leone. These case studies are based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out before, during and after the outbreak by five anthropologists involved in the response to Ebola in diverse capacities. Our goal is to represent and conceptualise the Ebola response as a dynamic interaction between a response apparatus, local populations and intermediaries, with uncertain outcomes that were negotiated over time and in response to changing conditions. Our findings show that community engagement tactics that are based on fixed notions of legitimacy are unable to respond to the fluidity of community response environments during emergencies.Read less <
English Keywords
community engagement
ethnography
legitimacy
Ebola
Origin
Hal importedCollections