New Wars and Old Plagues
Armed Conflict, Environmental Change and Resurgent Malaria in the Southern Caucasus
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This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region’s largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s.
This book is an important addition to the literature on the Karabakh conflict and conflict studies more broadly because the infectious disease outbreaks associated with warfare often kill more people than the armed conflicts themselves. Warfare itself has also changed dramatically since the collapse of the USSR, and the Karabakh conflict provides an excellent case study of the way “New Wars” transform the natural and social environment to facilitate outbreaks of preventable disease. This extended case study will be useful to researchers from a variety of academic disciplines, including medical anthropology, geography, conflict studies, disease ecology, global health and public health. It also reveals the fragility of twentieth century malaria control in temperate regions and will assist in predictive modeling for future outbreaks.
This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region’s largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s.
This book is an important addition to the literature on the Karabakh conflict and conflict studies more broadly because the infectious disease outbreaks associated with warfare often kill more people than the armed conflicts themselves. Warfare itself has also changed dramatically since the collapse of the USSR, and the Karabakh conflict provides an excellent case study of the way “New Wars” transform the natural and social environment to facilitate outbreaks of preventable disease. This extended case study will be useful to researchers froma variety of academic disciplines, including medical anthropology, geography, conflict studies, disease ecology, global health and public health. It also reveals the fragility of twentieth century malaria control in temperate regions and will assist in predictive modeling for future outbreaks.This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores how environmental degradation and human displacement caused by war leads to disease outbreaks Offers a new lens to study the Karabkh conflict by focusing on its role in the ensuing malaria outbreak Will assist in predictive modeling for future malaria outbreaks in temperate regions
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Katherine Hirschfeld
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Armed conflict Malaria Medical anthropology Emerging infectious diseases Disease ecology Karabakh Caucasus Remote sensing Medical geography Post-Soviet history Open Access Warfare Non-state actors
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“Hirschfeld and her colleagues have indebted us all with an agenda-setting, eye-opening book. The epidemiological, ecological and medical dimensions of war, separatism and ethnic conflict have long been overshadowed and neglected. With a fresh and provocative re-examination of the Nagorno-Karabakh case, this outstanding study reveals the symbiosis between ethnic war and frozen conflict on the one hand, and disease dispersion and environmental degradation on the other. The result is a goldmine of insights for social scientists and health practitioners alike. By examining the dynamics between public health and nationalist politics, military operations and environmental destruction, the authors deliver an original, unorthodox look at not just the Caucasus but imperial borderlands and disputed territories globally. An exciting and extraordinary achievement.” (Danilo Mandić, Harvard University)
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