{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-ebola-2","title":"In the Time of Ebola","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of Ebola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is his account of the epidemic, centering on the residents of a neighborhood swept up in the emergency.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLipton follows the lives of young men and women over a period of seven years, revealing what the epidemic looked like on the ground. He explores its causes, impacts, and legacies in a place where crisis might be considered the norm, not the exception. The emergency was disruptive and challenging, not least due to the short-term international response. Yet for many youths Ebola was a time of unusual clarity on the ambiguities around care, work, and coming of age experienced in a context of vast economic and social inequalities. Lipton shows how residents of this historically cosmopolitan West African city drew on centuries-old frameworks for managing foreign intervention.\u003ci\u003e In the Time of Ebola \u003c\/i\u003equestions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing, researching, and responding to emergencies that make the home, the family, and \"ordinary life\" their starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jonah Lipton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54936620368252,"sku":"9781501778117","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781501778117.jpg?v=1739269187","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-time-of-ebola-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}