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Conference Paper: Ecologies in the Age of the World Target: Towards a History of the Hotspot
| Title | Ecologies in the Age of the World Target: Towards a History of the Hotspot |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2018 |
| Citation | Histories and Ecologies of Health International Conference, Hong Kong, 13-14 December 2018 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | What can the migration of a word across domains—from ecology and conservation to epidemiology and epidemic management—tell us about the forces that shape scientific knowledge and practice? Focusing on Southeast Asia, and in particular Indonesia, this paper explores the hotspot’s contradictory history as an exemplary but exceptional space: from a zone of extraordinary biodiversity to a locale that poses heightened risk from emerging infectious diseases today. The paper investigates the different practices of conservation, protection, and surveillance that the hotspot calls forth. It argues that tracing the hotspot’s conceptual evolution sheds light on an underlying tension within contemporary ecological thought between the world as system and the world as target. The research for this paper was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (HKU Project Code 17607415: ‘Techno-Imperialism and the Origins of Global Health’). |
| Description | Session 01: Pre-emption, Conservation, Global Health Organizer: Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/284921 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Peckham, RS | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-07T09:04:23Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-07T09:04:23Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Histories and Ecologies of Health International Conference, Hong Kong, 13-14 December 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/284921 | - |
| dc.description | Session 01: Pre-emption, Conservation, Global Health | - |
| dc.description | Organizer: Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, | - |
| dc.description.abstract | What can the migration of a word across domains—from ecology and conservation to epidemiology and epidemic management—tell us about the forces that shape scientific knowledge and practice? Focusing on Southeast Asia, and in particular Indonesia, this paper explores the hotspot’s contradictory history as an exemplary but exceptional space: from a zone of extraordinary biodiversity to a locale that poses heightened risk from emerging infectious diseases today. The paper investigates the different practices of conservation, protection, and surveillance that the hotspot calls forth. It argues that tracing the hotspot’s conceptual evolution sheds light on an underlying tension within contemporary ecological thought between the world as system and the world as target. The research for this paper was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (HKU Project Code 17607415: ‘Techno-Imperialism and the Origins of Global Health’). | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Histories and Ecologies of Health International Conference | - |
| dc.title | Ecologies in the Age of the World Target: Towards a History of the Hotspot | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Peckham, RS: rpeckham@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Peckham, RS=rp01193 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 312603 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |