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"没有固定的时间":乌干达阿丘利难民的疫情准备和关系时间
1ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Medical anthropology
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概括
公共卫生准备工作往往忽视了不确定性. 阿丘利难民将流行病等不可预测的事件融入日常生活,将其视为与自然和精神相互关联,需要一种新的准备方法.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医学人类学 医学人类学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 目前针对疫情准备的技术科学公共卫生战略往往依赖于线性时间表.
- 这些方法难以解释流行病事件固有的不确定性和不可预测性.
- 现有的模型未能纳入风险和弹性方面的多元文化理解.
研究的目的:
- 探索疫情准备的替代概念,超越线性,技术科学框架.
- 了解面临反复危机的社区如何感知和管理不可预测的事件.
- 调查文化信仰和关系时间性在弹性中的作用.
主要方法:
- 在乌干达北部的阿丘利难民中进行的长期民族学研究.
- 通过采访和参与者观察收集定性数据,重点关注流行病和意外事件的经验.
- 对有关过去,现在和未来事件的叙述进行分析,以了解时间视角.
主要成果:
- 难民认为流行病不是孤立的事件,而是流动的,相互关联的现象,类似于"风".
- 他们的理解植根于关系的时间性,整合了人,环境和精神力量.
- 社区积极预测并将不可预测的事件纳入日常生活,寻求平衡.
结论:
- 传统的公共卫生准备模式需要进行重大调整,以纳入基于社区的关系视角.
- 了解当地的风险和不确定性认识论对于有效的流行病准备至关重要.
- 未来的战略必须采用非线性,文化敏感的方法来建立真正的弹性.
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