Climate / People / Health / Environment - Partie 2
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made visible the embodied consequences of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) inequalities and the relationalities of health in place. This paper combines insights from relational geographies and embodied epidemiology to explore psychosocial concerns among Ghanaian migrants in Canada due to multiple and simultaneous roles in the WaSH spaces in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored this using narratives from in-depth interviews with 27 participants (16 w...
Globally, older adults were more likely to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, non-profit organizations played essential roles in supporting those affected. Indeed, Reach One Touch One Ministries (ROTOM), a non-profit organization that holistically supports older adults and their dependents in Uganda and Ethiopia, was central in providing COVID-19 care and support. However, with l...
Archival research has been long recognized as a key method in geography, and at the same time, geographical literature on care is growing rapidly. However, these literatures have remained largely distinct from each other within the discipline, even though geographers have often implemented care into their archival research and practice, and even as archival research holds growing appeal for scholars examining historical influences on contemporary places. In this paper, I bring archives and...