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The Ebola Crisis and Post‐2015 Development
Author(s) -
Leach Melissa
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3112
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , distrust , sierra leone , securitization , political science , politics , political economy , resistance (ecology) , sociology , development economics , economic growth , criminology , law , socioeconomics , economics , psychology , social psychology , ecology , biology , financial system
This article argues that the recent Ebola crisis is the result of structural violence, as interlocking institutions have produced interlaced inequalities, unsustainabilities and insecurities. These have underlain the vulnerabilities in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea through which a disease outbreak became a major health, social and economic crisis and the local fears, distrust, rumours and resistance that magnified it further. Articulating this analysis of Ebola with broader perspectives, the case is made for a reframing of post‐2015 development as transformational politics towards equality, sustainability and security, enabling people to realise well‐being and justice in terms that make sense to them. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.