"Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces," Emily Webster, Durham University

Understanding epidemics, this talk argues, requires thinking of epidemics as complex ecological events, and of urban spaces as a collision of global and local biocultural forces; and that the use of both biological and historical evidence is necessary to render these events visible. Emily Webster argues that the structures of imperialism – in these examples, British imperialism – created ecological niches for a variety of infectious diseases.

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