Alex M Nading
Biographic Data
| ID | 76520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex M Nading |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nading |
| SIGNATURE | NADING A M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment
How can we live well together? The question is critical for cities, where "wicked problems" like failing infrastructure, natural and industrial disaster, and epidemic disease pose threats to diverse forms of life. Because such problems are by definition world-shattering, it is notoriously difficult for city-dwellers to agree on how to think about them, much less overcome them. This essay sketches a collaborative ethnographic approach for co-conce…
The end of the cooperative model (as we knew it): Commoning and co-becoming in two Nicaraguan cooperatives
Cooperatives produce commons, but how they do so-and what kinds of commons they produce-cannot be known in advance. Two cooperatives in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua illustrate how distinct cooperative assemblages actually take shape through particular patterns of commoning. First, members of a women's sewing cooperative called the Fair Trade Zone refuse open-membership. Claiming kinship as the logic of their membership, they describe the cooperative…
Living in a Toxic World
While the proliferation of industrial toxic substances over the past century has had drastic environmental and bodily effects, conventional methods of measuring and mitigating those effects continue to produce uncertainty. The project of living in a toxic world entails ethical, technical, and aesthetic efforts to understand toxicity as a contingent encounter among beings, systems, and things, rather than as a fundamental characteristic of particu…
Local Biologies, Leaky Things, and the Chemical Infrastructure of Global Health
This article examines how two chemical substances are woven into the infrastructure of global health as well as into the social lives of health workers in urban Nicaragua. One chemical is temephos, an organophosphate used to control mosquitoes. The other is chlorine-based products, which are used to disinfect surfaces and water. While global health projects tend to treat these substances as stable objects, there are three ways in which they might…
Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine
A laboratory-engineered, "chimeric" dengue fever vaccine entered late-stage clinical trials in the late 2000s. One possible way of interpreting the arrival of a technology like this is to see it as the end point of a unified global project. Alternatively, it can be understood as a "cosmopolitical event." Instead of reflecting unity, cosmopolitical events magnify social and technical differences, and they afford space to contemplate alternative fo…
Mosquito Trails: "Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement"
It is easy to think of mosquitoes as enemies. They not only bite us but also transmit diseases, including dengue fever, the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness. Routine house-to-house mosquito control is a common feature of life in the low-income cities where dengue strikes most often, yet we know little about how people in those cities translate knowledge about mosquitoes into meaningful notions of health. Drawing on two years of ethno…
Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, Mosquito Trails tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidem…
Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement
Medical and environmental social scientists have recently become interested in how health brings human and nonhuman animals together. is article discusses historical approaches to this question. It then explores applied disease ecology, which examines how anthropogenic landscape change leads to "disease emergence." The article goes on to review two critical approaches to the question. Critics of bio-security concern themselves with the ways in wh…
Love Isn't There in Your Stomach: A Moral Economy of Medical Citizenship among Nicaraguan Community Health Workers
Drawing on participant-observation in Nicaraguan dengue prevention campaigns and a series of semistructured interviews with Nicaraguan health ministry personnel, this article shows how community health workers (CHWs) balanced two kinds of "medical citizenship." In some situations, CHWs acted as professional monitors and models of hygienic behavior. At other times, CHWs acted as compassionate advocates for their poor neighbors. In 2008, Nicaragua'…
Dengue Mosquitoes Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work
Nicaraguan Ministry of Health protocols for the control of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, hinge on an aesthetic ordering of the urban household, one in which mosquitoes, like garbage and dirt, do not belong. Management regimes such as this appear to rely on an alienation of people-and in the case of dengue, women in particular-from the urban natures in which they live. In this article, I draw on 18 months of research wit…
Living in a Toxic World
While the proliferation of industrial toxic substances over the past century has had drastic environmental and bodily effects, conventional methods of measuring and mitigating those effects continue to produce uncertainty. The project of living in a toxic world entails ethical, technical, and aesthetic efforts to understand toxicity as a contingent encounter among beings, systems, and things, rather than as a fundamental characteristic of particu…
Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement
Medical and environmental social scientists have recently become interested in how health brings human and nonhuman animals together. is article discusses historical approaches to this question. It then explores applied disease ecology, which examines how anthropogenic landscape change leads to "disease emergence." The article goes on to review two critical approaches to the question. Critics of bio-security concern themselves with the ways in wh…
Love Isn't There in Your Stomach: A Moral Economy of Medical Citizenship among Nicaraguan Community Health Workers
Drawing on participant-observation in Nicaraguan dengue prevention campaigns and a series of semistructured interviews with Nicaraguan health ministry personnel, this article shows how community health workers (CHWs) balanced two kinds of "medical citizenship." In some situations, CHWs acted as professional monitors and models of hygienic behavior. At other times, CHWs acted as compassionate advocates for their poor neighbors. In 2008, Nicaragua'…
Local Biologies, Leaky Things, and the Chemical Infrastructure of Global Health
This article examines how two chemical substances are woven into the infrastructure of global health as well as into the social lives of health workers in urban Nicaragua. One chemical is temephos, an organophosphate used to control mosquitoes. The other is chlorine-based products, which are used to disinfect surfaces and water. While global health projects tend to treat these substances as stable objects, there are three ways in which they might…
Dengue Mosquitoes Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work
Nicaraguan Ministry of Health protocols for the control of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, hinge on an aesthetic ordering of the urban household, one in which mosquitoes, like garbage and dirt, do not belong. Management regimes such as this appear to rely on an alienation of people-and in the case of dengue, women in particular-from the urban natures in which they live. In this article, I draw on 18 months of research wit…
Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine
A laboratory-engineered, "chimeric" dengue fever vaccine entered late-stage clinical trials in the late 2000s. One possible way of interpreting the arrival of a technology like this is to see it as the end point of a unified global project. Alternatively, it can be understood as a "cosmopolitical event." Instead of reflecting unity, cosmopolitical events magnify social and technical differences, and they afford space to contemplate alternative fo…
The end of the cooperative model (as we knew it): Commoning and co-becoming in two Nicaraguan cooperatives
Cooperatives produce commons, but how they do so-and what kinds of commons they produce-cannot be known in advance. Two cooperatives in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua illustrate how distinct cooperative assemblages actually take shape through particular patterns of commoning. First, members of a women's sewing cooperative called the Fair Trade Zone refuse open-membership. Claiming kinship as the logic of their membership, they describe the cooperative…
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment
How can we live well together? The question is critical for cities, where "wicked problems" like failing infrastructure, natural and industrial disaster, and epidemic disease pose threats to diverse forms of life. Because such problems are by definition world-shattering, it is notoriously difficult for city-dwellers to agree on how to think about them, much less overcome them. This essay sketches a collaborative ethnographic approach for co-conce…
Dengue Mosquitoes Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work
Nicaraguan Ministry of Health protocols for the control of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, hinge on an aesthetic ordering of the urban household, one in which mosquitoes, like garbage and dirt, do not belong. Management regimes such as this appear to rely on an alienation of people-and in the case of dengue, women in particular-from the urban natures in which they live. In this article, I draw on 18 months of research wit…
Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement
Medical and environmental social scientists have recently become interested in how health brings human and nonhuman animals together. is article discusses historical approaches to this question. It then explores applied disease ecology, which examines how anthropogenic landscape change leads to "disease emergence." The article goes on to review two critical approaches to the question. Critics of bio-security concern themselves with the ways in wh…
Love Isn't There in Your Stomach: A Moral Economy of Medical Citizenship among Nicaraguan Community Health Workers
Drawing on participant-observation in Nicaraguan dengue prevention campaigns and a series of semistructured interviews with Nicaraguan health ministry personnel, this article shows how community health workers (CHWs) balanced two kinds of "medical citizenship." In some situations, CHWs acted as professional monitors and models of hygienic behavior. At other times, CHWs acted as compassionate advocates for their poor neighbors. In 2008, Nicaragua'…
Mosquito Trails: "Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement"
It is easy to think of mosquitoes as enemies. They not only bite us but also transmit diseases, including dengue fever, the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness. Routine house-to-house mosquito control is a common feature of life in the low-income cities where dengue strikes most often, yet we know little about how people in those cities translate knowledge about mosquitoes into meaningful notions of health. Drawing on two years of ethno…
Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, Mosquito Trails tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidem…
Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine
A laboratory-engineered, "chimeric" dengue fever vaccine entered late-stage clinical trials in the late 2000s. One possible way of interpreting the arrival of a technology like this is to see it as the end point of a unified global project. Alternatively, it can be understood as a "cosmopolitical event." Instead of reflecting unity, cosmopolitical events magnify social and technical differences, and they afford space to contemplate alternative fo…
Local Biologies, Leaky Things, and the Chemical Infrastructure of Global Health
This article examines how two chemical substances are woven into the infrastructure of global health as well as into the social lives of health workers in urban Nicaragua. One chemical is temephos, an organophosphate used to control mosquitoes. The other is chlorine-based products, which are used to disinfect surfaces and water. While global health projects tend to treat these substances as stable objects, there are three ways in which they might…
Living in a Toxic World
While the proliferation of industrial toxic substances over the past century has had drastic environmental and bodily effects, conventional methods of measuring and mitigating those effects continue to produce uncertainty. The project of living in a toxic world entails ethical, technical, and aesthetic efforts to understand toxicity as a contingent encounter among beings, systems, and things, rather than as a fundamental characteristic of particu…
The end of the cooperative model (as we knew it): Commoning and co-becoming in two Nicaraguan cooperatives
Cooperatives produce commons, but how they do so-and what kinds of commons they produce-cannot be known in advance. Two cooperatives in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua illustrate how distinct cooperative assemblages actually take shape through particular patterns of commoning. First, members of a women's sewing cooperative called the Fair Trade Zone refuse open-membership. Claiming kinship as the logic of their membership, they describe the cooperative…
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment
How can we live well together? The question is critical for cities, where "wicked problems" like failing infrastructure, natural and industrial disaster, and epidemic disease pose threats to diverse forms of life. Because such problems are by definition world-shattering, it is notoriously difficult for city-dwellers to agree on how to think about them, much less overcome them. This essay sketches a collaborative ethnographic approach for co-conce…
Sociology (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Dengue fever (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Zoonotic diseases and public health (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)