The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night

Giblett, Rod

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“…Placism, as a concept, is sparsely used in geography and education literatures, such as Jimerson's (2005) article on the exclusionary education policies for rural school systems, and across fields such as architecture, urban planning, aesthetics of place, and social studies of place (Carter 2004;Cartier 2008;Ford and Griffin 1979;Giblett 2009;Hage 1997;Palmer 2011;Stocker 2005;Ward 2003). I use the term placism to refer to the process by which certain places gain disproportionate epidemiological blame over local risk realities, typically because they adhere to historical or familiar cultural logics.…”

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Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods

Smith-Morris

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Super-diverse cities face distinctive challenges during infectious disease outbreaks. For refugee and immigrant groups from epidemic source locations, identities of place blend with epidemiological logics in convoluted ways during these crises. This research investigated the relationships of place and stigma during the Dallas Ebola crisis. Ethnographic results illustrate how Africanness, more than neighborhood stigma, informed Dallas residents' experience of stigma. The problems of place-based stigma, the imprecision of epidemiological placism, and the cohesion of stigma to semiotically powerful levels of place - rather than to realistic risk categories - are discussed. Taking its authority from epidemiology, placism is an important source of potential stigma with critical implications for the success of public health messaging.

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Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods

Smith-Morris

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night

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Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods

Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods

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