Harris Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harris Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harris |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability
Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the characteristics of place, especially the social setting of the informal settlement. In this light, it assesses specifically how cultural, historical, and political economic forces resulted in increased vulnerability to Ebola virus disease (EVD) within informal…
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Local response in health emergencies
This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local protective action. There is heightened concern about informal urban settlements because of the combination of population density and inadequate access to water and sanitation, which makes standard advice about social distancing and washing hands implausible. There …
Environmental Management
Charles T. Adeyanju, Deadly Fever
In this empirically detailed and theoretically informed case study, Charles T. Adeyanju demonstrates how a moral panic initiated by a potential infectious disease outbreak reveals the mechanisms, nature, and extent to which racism operates in Canada.In the winter of 2001 an ill "African woman" who had recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo was admitted to a Hamilton, Ontario hospital to receive treatment for an unidentified illnes…
Stigmatized Ethnicity, Public Health, and Globalization
The prejudicial linking of infection with ethnic minority status has a long-established history, but in some ways this association may have intensified under the contemporary circumstances of the "new public health" and globalization. This study analyzes this conflation of ethnicity and disease victimization by considering the stigmatization process that occurred during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The…
Governing the Sick City
Based on a case study of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto, Canada, this article suggests that we may have to rethink our common perception of what urban governance entails. Rather than operating solely in the conceptual proximity of social cohesion and economic competitiveness, urban governance may soon prove to be more centrally concerned with questions of widespread disease, life and death and the constructi…
Contagious Cities
The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that unfolded at various locations throughout the world represented the first collective threat to public health that was amplified by the processes and structures of our contemporary globalized society - such as, the compression of time and space and increased linkages between various cities of the world. In this article, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003 is used as an empirical referen…
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Journal Article Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City Get access S. Harris Ali S. Harris Ali York University, Toronto Direct correspondence to: S. Harris Ali, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 49, Issue 2, 1 Ma…
Trust, Risk and the Public
This paper investigates the role of trust in mediating the expert-lay interactions that took place in the recent Guelph Landfill Search Process (GLSP). On a theoretical level, I shall discuss how the emergent expert-lay trust relations, as well as the types of issues raised in the GLSP, were influenced by the conditions of the risk society outlined by Ulrich Beck. It is concluded that a lack of general trust in technology and technical expertise …
Local response in health emergencies
This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local protective action. There is heightened concern about informal urban settlements because of the combination of population density and inadequate access to water and sanitation, which makes standard advice about social distancing and washing hands implausible. There …
Governing the Sick City
Based on a case study of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto, Canada, this article suggests that we may have to rethink our common perception of what urban governance entails. Rather than operating solely in the conceptual proximity of social cohesion and economic competitiveness, urban governance may soon prove to be more centrally concerned with questions of widespread disease, life and death and the constructi…
Stigmatized Ethnicity, Public Health, and Globalization
The prejudicial linking of infection with ethnic minority status has a long-established history, but in some ways this association may have intensified under the contemporary circumstances of the "new public health" and globalization. This study analyzes this conflation of ethnicity and disease victimization by considering the stigmatization process that occurred during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The…
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Contagious Cities
The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that unfolded at various locations throughout the world represented the first collective threat to public health that was amplified by the processes and structures of our contemporary globalized society - such as, the compression of time and space and increased linkages between various cities of the world. In this article, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003 is used as an empirical referen…
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Journal Article Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City Get access S. Harris Ali S. Harris Ali York University, Toronto Direct correspondence to: S. Harris Ali, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 49, Issue 2, 1 Ma…
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability
Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the characteristics of place, especially the social setting of the informal settlement. In this light, it assesses specifically how cultural, historical, and political economic forces resulted in increased vulnerability to Ebola virus disease (EVD) within informal…
Trust, Risk and the Public
This paper investigates the role of trust in mediating the expert-lay interactions that took place in the recent Guelph Landfill Search Process (GLSP). On a theoretical level, I shall discuss how the emergent expert-lay trust relations, as well as the types of issues raised in the GLSP, were influenced by the conditions of the risk society outlined by Ulrich Beck. It is concluded that a lack of general trust in technology and technical expertise …
Trust, Risk and the Public
This paper investigates the role of trust in mediating the expert-lay interactions that took place in the recent Guelph Landfill Search Process (GLSP). On a theoretical level, I shall discuss how the emergent expert-lay trust relations, as well as the types of issues raised in the GLSP, were influenced by the conditions of the risk society outlined by Ulrich Beck. It is concluded that a lack of general trust in technology and technical expertise …
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Journal Article Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City Get access S. Harris Ali S. Harris Ali York University, Toronto Direct correspondence to: S. Harris Ali, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 49, Issue 2, 1 Ma…
Governing the Sick City
Based on a case study of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto, Canada, this article suggests that we may have to rethink our common perception of what urban governance entails. Rather than operating solely in the conceptual proximity of social cohesion and economic competitiveness, urban governance may soon prove to be more centrally concerned with questions of widespread disease, life and death and the constructi…
Contagious Cities
The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that unfolded at various locations throughout the world represented the first collective threat to public health that was amplified by the processes and structures of our contemporary globalized society - such as, the compression of time and space and increased linkages between various cities of the world. In this article, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003 is used as an empirical referen…
Stigmatized Ethnicity, Public Health, and Globalization
The prejudicial linking of infection with ethnic minority status has a long-established history, but in some ways this association may have intensified under the contemporary circumstances of the "new public health" and globalization. This study analyzes this conflation of ethnicity and disease victimization by considering the stigmatization process that occurred during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The…
Charles T. Adeyanju, Deadly Fever
In this empirically detailed and theoretically informed case study, Charles T. Adeyanju demonstrates how a moral panic initiated by a potential infectious disease outbreak reveals the mechanisms, nature, and extent to which racism operates in Canada.In the winter of 2001 an ill "African woman" who had recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo was admitted to a Hamilton, Ontario hospital to receive treatment for an unidentified illnes…
Environmental Management
Local response in health emergencies
This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local protective action. There is heightened concern about informal urban settlements because of the combination of population density and inadequate access to water and sanitation, which makes standard advice about social distancing and washing hands implausible. There …
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability
Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the characteristics of place, especially the social setting of the informal settlement. In this light, it assesses specifically how cultural, historical, and political economic forces resulted in increased vulnerability to Ebola virus disease (EVD) within informal…
Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works)