Brockmann, Jacob;
Iskander, Dalia;
(2023)
Mapping patchy malaria: the role of drone technologies in depicting particular environments and contingent risk.
In: Fornace, Kimberly and Conn, Jan and Mureb, Maria Anice and Chaves, Leonardo Suveges Moreira and Logan, James, (eds.)
Planetary health approaches to understand and control vector-borne diseases.
(pp. 183-205).
Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
This chapter is based on an anthropological study of a global, multidisciplinary network of researchers (MACONDO) that use drone technologies to support malaria vector control programmes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which drone technology for malaria control is deployed by various researchers and the implications the different applications had for the way malaria was conceived of and dealt with. It reports two key findings. First, that drone technologies reflected and mediated a shift towards thinking about malaria as multiple and emergent within heterogenous landscapes. Second, that in the hands of various researchers, malaria ‘environments’ were rendered ‘partial’ and ‘particular’ and risk equally fragmented. As a result, we highlight the ‘patchy’ character of malaria landscapes that drone technologies mediate and the challenge this poses to global health narratives based on ‘concrete’ and ‘neutral’ scientific ways of knowing.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mapping patchy malaria: the role of drone technologies in depicting particular environments and contingent risk |
| ISBN-13: | 978-90-04-68865-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3920/9789004688650_009 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3920/9789004688650_009 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209467 |
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