The research looks at novel techniques and technologies designed to ensure a ‘global’ community of healthy nations-ones able to live up to their responsibilities to care for and protect their vulnerable populations. Unpacking various understandings of the ‘global’ in GHS, it examines how experts worked to build novel 'global assemblages’ and reposition ‘reciprocal obligations between nations'. It explores how global health organizations and experts attempted to better 'prevent, detect, and respond' to public health emergencies after Ebola in 2014. The text also examines how communities of experts reworked their projects and programs during great destabilizations and disruptions, including both the 2016 US Presidential election as well as an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Together, the episodes illustrate the routines and technical artistry that made GHS into a space not only to reimagine a ‘safer’ or ‘healthier’ world, but to build the means to realize it. Working with experts through the early stages of project development, attention is paid to the relational processes that went into making global health security a workable concept. Based on over a year working with a global health non-profit, the text’s episodes attend to day-to-day work that translated diffuse concepts of ‘threat' and ‘risk' into discrete technical practices and projects to mitigate and minimize those threats. It juxtaposes a historical account of the emergence and transformation of GHS across the 2000s and 2010s against field-based ethnography of GHS during 20. How might these transformations constitute a new manner of thinking about, and acting on, epidemics as a ‘global’ problem? Contrasting genealogical-archival research with a series of field-based episodes, this dissertation explores how public health experts and technicians worked to define new problems and design the interventions aimed at addressing them. This research examines how the problems that emerged in the 1990s are changing since the 2014 West African Ebola crisis and the announcement of new global health security projects and initiatives. Marked throughout the 2000s by major events both political and pathogenic, GHS has undergone profound changes from primarily a policy-legal framework to a forum for reconfiguring global health 'action'. ‘Global health security’ (GHS) emerged as a novel epistemic space as a response to the perceived threats posed by circulations and appearances of ‘global’ diseases. It traces resistance to the street as a way-station to peer and charts a clamp-down on a radar street.īeginning in the early 1990s, a new manner of articulating the threat posed by epidemics of infectious diseases took shape. The Manual chronicles a messy cognitive arms race. If you want early radar systems on the street you better be ready to go after the bad code. But there were problems in assembling transit tools. They were gear to navigate patterns, kit to weave a course. Louis street was project workshop, scaffold, and catwalk. It’s also a dispatch, a dispatch from a front. But the Manual is more than a remix handbook or an art scene audit. Shoved them out to map a 2-byte maelstrom. The projects pushed remix artists into the street. They were up-running as private-public culture made the switch over to full-body digital apparel. They include a nightclub, media labs, theatrical plays, gallery shows, documentary films, street projections, and a line of public installations. This recipe is for a street in “A City That Thinks.” Hackerspace for Myth Making lays out a line of case studies. The projects link streetscapes and data-landscapes.
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