“If you suspect a case of Ebola... Free call: 177”
On the militarization of health in Sierra Leone during Ebola epidemic (2014-2016)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v27i1p85-117Keywords:
health policies, State, militarization, EbolaAbstract
In the last years, I’m researching social questions around the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, more precisely in Sierra Leone. From October 2015 to January 2016 and from May to October of 2017 I travelled there, doing fieldwork in Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, as well to other districts. All over the country there was “checkpoints”, instruments to controlling bodies. Despite of this, in all the cities was common posters and outdoors mobilizing population to keep aware in cases of Ebola, including sugestion “denounces” as “If you suspect a case of Ebola, free call: 177”. This way is notorious the use of a military language to deal with the epidemic. But militarization was not only as a metaphor, it started in the contexts of daily practices as threats, deprivation of freedom with lockdowns, quarantines and even with prison. In other words, the control of epidemic always has been linked to the militarization of health.
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