7th-8th September 2015, University of Bath
The Development Studies Association Conference in 2015 takes as its theme the forms of relationship that are valued, enacted and denied through current processes of international development. Ebola, political violence, migration, trade and climate change all assert our global interdependence, while structures of governance still tend to assume the predominance of nation state sovereignty.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa triggered one of the largest deployments of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) in history. Although MSF had experience with outbreaks of Ebola and similar hemorrhagic fevers in the past, both the number of cases and geographic spread of this outbreak have been unprecedented. This has posed enormous medical, logistical and organisational challenges that often demanded novel responses. The scale of this epidemic also uncovered many political challenges both on the local and global levels.
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financed through the European Research Council project GLOBHEALTH, “From international to global: Knowledge and diseases and the post-war government of health”.
