Encounter between tiredness, dust, and Ebola at a border checkpoint of northwestern Côte d'Ivoire

Chappatte, André

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Encounter between tiredness, dust, and Ebola at a border checkpoint of northwestern Côte d'Ivoire

ContributorsChappatte, André

Published inBasel Papers On Political Transformations, no. 10, p. 9-23

Publication date2016

Abstract

In March 2014 I undertook a cross-border journey from Manankoro (Mali) to Odienné (Côte d'Ivoire) during the early phase of the West African Ebola virus epidemic. This article analyses discourses about Ebola encountered during this journey. It explains that Ebola is a possible metaphor of state power in West Africa when its intervention becomes violent, arbitrary and insidious.

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Ebola
border
checkpoint
state formation
ethnography

NoteMobilities - In and Out of Africa

Affiliation

Centres et instituts / Global Studies Institute

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CHAPPATTE, André. Encounter between tiredness, dust, and Ebola at a border checkpoint of northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. In: Basel Papers On Political Transformations, 2016, n° 10, p. 9–23.

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