Veronica Gomez-Temesio
Biographic Data
| ID | 669442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Gomez-Temesio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Gomez-Temesio |
| SIGNATURE | GOMEZ-TEMESIO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1956-4183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mother of All Labour
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cuba. Even so, the unit constituted a racialised landscape where proximity to white agencies granted privileges to certain groups of racialised people while excluding others. In a humanitarian infrastructur…
Homage to Ebola Fighters
During the Ebola outbreak that hit Guinea in 2014, most of the people employed at the Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit were from Africa or Cuba. Despite the recruitment of black personnel, the unit exposes how the humanitarian infrastructure exploited Guinean workers as if their lives were less vulnerable than those of the foreign personnel. The Africanization of aid reveals a post-colonial segregation at the intersection of race, class, and locali…
Aux confins de la quarantaine
Ce texte est basé sur un récit de terrain, celui de la mise en quarantaine de l’auteure pendant l’épidémie d’Ebola qui a frappé la Guinée entre 2014 et 2015. Alors qu’elle réalisait un terrain ethnographique au centre de traitement Ebola de Wonkifong, Veronica Gomez-Temesio a vécu un incident de biosécurité et elle est tombée malade peu après. Suspectée d’avoir contracté Ebola, elle a été placée en quarantaine pendant plusieurs jours. Ce texte ra…
L’État sourcier
Depuis les années 1980, l’eau est devenue un objet de préoccupation au sein de la communauté internationale. Cette substance vitale a désormais acquis une valeur marchande qui dicte la conditionnalité de l'aide au développement dans les pays du Sud. Le forage hydraulique est au cœur de la réforme de privatisation qui traverse le Sénégal. Pour appréhender cette infrastructure, l’auteur revisite une posture ethnographique popularisée par l’École de…
Références citées
Ouvrages, articles et rapportsAbélès Marc, 1990, Anthropologie de l’État, Paris, Armand Colin.Abélès Marc, 2004, « Le terrain et le sous-terrain », De l’ethnographie à l’anthropologie réflexive. Nouveaux terrains, nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux enjeux, Christian Ghasarian éd., Paris, Armand Colin, p. 35-43.Abrams Philip, (1977) 1988, « Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State », Journal of Historical Sociology, 1(1), p. 58-89.Agrawal Arun et …
Feeling like a caiman
When I started exploring water access in Senegal, the goal of my research was to test the legal-rational Weberian paradigm through an ethnography of the everyday experience of the State. In the central region of the country, a team of servants attached to the Water Supervisory Ministry were charged with the maintenance of water access. Citizens mostly depicted these agents as "caimans": Greedy predators who were always asking for money. Witnessin…
Outliving Death
Treatment units were created all across the country with a mission to save lives when the Ebola outbreak hit Guinea in 2014. These units were exceptional sites of biomedical and biosecurity technology. Nevertheless, the concrete procedures to contain the virus reduced the people quarantined to dangerous bodies. The emergency therefore created zombies, haunting figures trapped between life and death. The figure of the zombie shed light on the fail…
La mise en camp de la Guinée
In 2014, West Africa was hit by the first large-scale outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic. The event was widely recognized as exceptional, not only for how rapidly it spread, how long it lasted, and the scale of the humanitarian response but also, from the point of view of people in Guinea, for the attempt to resist, sometimes violently, the means used to respond to it. Our comparative ethnographic study of two Ebola Treatment Centres (Etc) set …
Home is Claiming for Rights
In Senegal, when a borehole breakdown occurs in a community, the “son of the soil” is summoned to help as an informal key alternative to officials appointed by user committees. “Sons” have several points in common: Born in the village, they work as administrative executives in the capital Dakar and are connected to the ruling party. Sons of the soil narratives shed light on a specific “moral economy” in which people born on the same soil, home, h…
Le sourcier du village est cadre à Dakar
Cette recherche aborde la problématique de la circulation de l'eau en milieu rural sénégalais à partir du dysfonctionnement : la cessation du service d'eau. Lors de ces moments de crise, les habitants font régulièrement appel à un « fils du village », un cadre de l'administration, natif de la zone et établi à Dakar. Ces épisodes permettent d'éclairer aussi bien les registres de pouvoir et de légitimité locaux que les rapports du rural à l'urbain …
Outliving Death
Treatment units were created all across the country with a mission to save lives when the Ebola outbreak hit Guinea in 2014. These units were exceptional sites of biomedical and biosecurity technology. Nevertheless, the concrete procedures to contain the virus reduced the people quarantined to dangerous bodies. The emergency therefore created zombies, haunting figures trapped between life and death. The figure of the zombie shed light on the fail…
La mise en camp de la Guinée
In 2014, West Africa was hit by the first large-scale outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic. The event was widely recognized as exceptional, not only for how rapidly it spread, how long it lasted, and the scale of the humanitarian response but also, from the point of view of people in Guinea, for the attempt to resist, sometimes violently, the means used to respond to it. Our comparative ethnographic study of two Ebola Treatment Centres (Etc) set …
Home is Claiming for Rights
In Senegal, when a borehole breakdown occurs in a community, the “son of the soil” is summoned to help as an informal key alternative to officials appointed by user committees. “Sons” have several points in common: Born in the village, they work as administrative executives in the capital Dakar and are connected to the ruling party. Sons of the soil narratives shed light on a specific “moral economy” in which people born on the same soil, home, h…
Le sourcier du village est cadre à Dakar
Cette recherche aborde la problématique de la circulation de l'eau en milieu rural sénégalais à partir du dysfonctionnement : la cessation du service d'eau. Lors de ces moments de crise, les habitants font régulièrement appel à un « fils du village », un cadre de l'administration, natif de la zone et établi à Dakar. Ces épisodes permettent d'éclairer aussi bien les registres de pouvoir et de légitimité locaux que les rapports du rural à l'urbain …
Feeling like a caiman
When I started exploring water access in Senegal, the goal of my research was to test the legal-rational Weberian paradigm through an ethnography of the everyday experience of the State. In the central region of the country, a team of servants attached to the Water Supervisory Ministry were charged with the maintenance of water access. Citizens mostly depicted these agents as "caimans": Greedy predators who were always asking for money. Witnessin…
Le sourcier du village est cadre à Dakar
Cette recherche aborde la problématique de la circulation de l'eau en milieu rural sénégalais à partir du dysfonctionnement : la cessation du service d'eau. Lors de ces moments de crise, les habitants font régulièrement appel à un « fils du village », un cadre de l'administration, natif de la zone et établi à Dakar. Ces épisodes permettent d'éclairer aussi bien les registres de pouvoir et de légitimité locaux que les rapports du rural à l'urbain …
Home is Claiming for Rights
In Senegal, when a borehole breakdown occurs in a community, the “son of the soil” is summoned to help as an informal key alternative to officials appointed by user committees. “Sons” have several points in common: Born in the village, they work as administrative executives in the capital Dakar and are connected to the ruling party. Sons of the soil narratives shed light on a specific “moral economy” in which people born on the same soil, home, h…
La mise en camp de la Guinée
In 2014, West Africa was hit by the first large-scale outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic. The event was widely recognized as exceptional, not only for how rapidly it spread, how long it lasted, and the scale of the humanitarian response but also, from the point of view of people in Guinea, for the attempt to resist, sometimes violently, the means used to respond to it. Our comparative ethnographic study of two Ebola Treatment Centres (Etc) set …
Outliving Death
Treatment units were created all across the country with a mission to save lives when the Ebola outbreak hit Guinea in 2014. These units were exceptional sites of biomedical and biosecurity technology. Nevertheless, the concrete procedures to contain the virus reduced the people quarantined to dangerous bodies. The emergency therefore created zombies, haunting figures trapped between life and death. The figure of the zombie shed light on the fail…
L’État sourcier
Depuis les années 1980, l’eau est devenue un objet de préoccupation au sein de la communauté internationale. Cette substance vitale a désormais acquis une valeur marchande qui dicte la conditionnalité de l'aide au développement dans les pays du Sud. Le forage hydraulique est au cœur de la réforme de privatisation qui traverse le Sénégal. Pour appréhender cette infrastructure, l’auteur revisite une posture ethnographique popularisée par l’École de…
Références citées
Ouvrages, articles et rapportsAbélès Marc, 1990, Anthropologie de l’État, Paris, Armand Colin.Abélès Marc, 2004, « Le terrain et le sous-terrain », De l’ethnographie à l’anthropologie réflexive. Nouveaux terrains, nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux enjeux, Christian Ghasarian éd., Paris, Armand Colin, p. 35-43.Abrams Philip, (1977) 1988, « Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State », Journal of Historical Sociology, 1(1), p. 58-89.Agrawal Arun et …
Feeling like a caiman
When I started exploring water access in Senegal, the goal of my research was to test the legal-rational Weberian paradigm through an ethnography of the everyday experience of the State. In the central region of the country, a team of servants attached to the Water Supervisory Ministry were charged with the maintenance of water access. Citizens mostly depicted these agents as "caimans": Greedy predators who were always asking for money. Witnessin…
Aux confins de la quarantaine
Ce texte est basé sur un récit de terrain, celui de la mise en quarantaine de l’auteure pendant l’épidémie d’Ebola qui a frappé la Guinée entre 2014 et 2015. Alors qu’elle réalisait un terrain ethnographique au centre de traitement Ebola de Wonkifong, Veronica Gomez-Temesio a vécu un incident de biosécurité et elle est tombée malade peu après. Suspectée d’avoir contracté Ebola, elle a été placée en quarantaine pendant plusieurs jours. Ce texte ra…
Homage to Ebola Fighters
During the Ebola outbreak that hit Guinea in 2014, most of the people employed at the Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit were from Africa or Cuba. Despite the recruitment of black personnel, the unit exposes how the humanitarian infrastructure exploited Guinean workers as if their lives were less vulnerable than those of the foreign personnel. The Africanization of aid reveals a post-colonial segregation at the intersection of race, class, and locali…
Mother of All Labour
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cuba. Even so, the unit constituted a racialised landscape where proximity to white agencies granted privileges to certain groups of racialised people while excluding others. In a humanitarian infrastructur…
Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works)