PUBLISHED ACADEMIC PAPERS by Kalala Ngalamulume
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imagina... more The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical diseases which lead to (racialised) changes in urban planning. The Tropics as a region of pandemic, plague and pestilence has been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus did not (simply) originate in the tropics, nor have peoples of the tropics been specifically or exclusively infected. The papers collected in this Special Issue disrupt the imaginary of pandemics, plague and pestilence in association with the tropics through critical, nuanced, and situated inquiries from cultural history, ethnography, cultural studies, science and technology studies, Indigenous knowledge, philosophy, anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, literature and film analyses, and expressed through distinctive academic articles, poetry and speculative fiction.
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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics publishes new research from arts, humanitie... more eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics publishes new research from arts, humanities, social sciences and allied fields on the variety and interrelatedness of nature, culture, and society in the tropics. Published by James Cook University, a leading research institution on critical issues facing the world’s Tropics. Free open access, Scopus Listed, Scimago Q2. Indexed in: Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, Ulrich's, SHERPA/RoMEO, Pandora. ISSN 1448-2940. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 free to download, save and reproduce. To cite, include: Author(s), Title, eTropic, volume, issue, year, pages and DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.1.2021.3802
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
This article shows how French doctors based in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, the capital of colonial Se... more This article shows how French doctors based in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, the capital of colonial Senegal, conceptualised the Senegambian region as a diseased environment and Africans as carriers of infectious agents. It explains how perceptions of the hot tropical climate, combined with outbreaks of epidemic diseases and seasonal allergies, were instrumental in the processes of urban transformation through hygienic measures such as waste removal, the closing of cemeteries, and the imposition of new building codes. The article also shows how the stigmatisation of Africans was implicated in the forced removal of the urban poor – firstly from the city centre, and later from the entire city-island. Colonial medical knowledge in Senegal was initially based on the miasma theory, however, germ theory was adopted in the aftermath of the 1900 yellow fever epidemic. Both theories, in relation with racialism, impacted the urban landscape in Saint-Louis, Senegal.
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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
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Anxiety in and about Africa, 2020
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The Journal of African History, 2020
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Journal of West African History, 2018
This article examines the validity and reliability of the testimonies and sworn depositions that ... more This article examines the validity and reliability of the testimonies and sworn depositions that the Peuvergne administration produced in July 1910 as evidence justifying Justin Devès’s suspension and removal from office as mayor of Saint-Louis, capital of French Senegal. The main argument here is that the “Devès Affair” was based on spurious charges. The article places the conflict in the broader context of the political and economic competition between the French colonial administration and the Bordeaux firms, on the one hand, and the Devès network, on the other.
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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2016
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Focusing on yellow fever, cholera, and plague epidemics as well as on sanitation in the context o... more Focusing on yellow fever, cholera, and plague epidemics as well as on sanitation in the context of urban growth in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between 1867 and 1920, this book explores how the French colonial and medical authorities responded to the emergence and re-emergence of deadly epidemic diseases and environmental contamination. Official reactions ranged from blaming the Africans and the tropical climate to the imposition of urban residential segregation and strictly enforced furloughs of civil servants and European troops. Drastic and disruptive sanitary measures led to a conflict between the interests of competing conceptions of public health and those of commerce, civil liberties, and popular culture. This book also examines the effort undertaken by the colonizer to make Senegal a healthy colony and Saint-Louis the healthiest port-city/capital through better hygiene, building codes, vector control, and the construction of waterworks and a sewerage system. The author offers insight into the urban processes and daily life in a colonial city during the formative years of the French empire in West Africa.
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African Economic History, 1993
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African Economic History, 1995
Preface The Current State of Affairs in Sub-Saharan Africa Health Resource Efficiency Resource Mo... more Preface The Current State of Affairs in Sub-Saharan Africa Health Resource Efficiency Resource Mobilization Health Financing Reform Options Appendixes: Basic Data for Calculation of Health Welfare The Range of Life Expectancies Improvement in In-County Water and Sanitation Efficiency References Index
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Politique africaine, 2006
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