Holding Together: An Approach to Briggs’s Methods for the Study of Epidemics

Abstract: 

Charles Briggs' recent book, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge, provides a launching pad for Bernardo Moreno Peniche to discuss coloniality and notions of traditionality and modernity in approaches to public health and disease control.

Author: 
Bernardo Moreno Peniche
Publication date: 
June 15, 2022
Publication type: 
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article