{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-ebola-jonah-lipton-9781501778100","title":"In the Time of Ebola: Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of Ebola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is his account of the epidemic, centering on the residents of a neighborhood swept up in the emergency.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLipton follows the lives of young men and women over a period of seven years, revealing what the epidemic looked like on the ground. He explores its causes, impacts, and legacies in a place where crisis might be considered the norm, not the exception. The emergency was disruptive and challenging, not least due to the short-term international response. Yet for many youths Ebola was a time of unusual clarity on the ambiguities around care, work, and coming of age experienced in a context of vast economic and social inequalities. Lipton shows how residents of this historically cosmopolitan West African city drew on centuries-old frameworks for managing foreign intervention.\u003ci\u003e In the Time of Ebola \u003c\/i\u003equestions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing, researching, and responding to emergencies that make the home, the family, and \"ordinary life\" their starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonah Lipton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501778102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501778100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jonah Lipton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897762832639,"sku":"9781501778100","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9875e82f-0e10-46af-a5d0-8addc6f13d56.jpg?v=1721374684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-time-of-ebola-jonah-lipton-9781501778100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}