A Fanonian anthropology of the atmosphere of felt disasters and felt changes
Revisiting Fanon to explore the felt disasters of war, epidemics, and humanitarian interventions in the tenth Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sung-Joon Park (0000-0002-1134-340X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 429-444 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | HAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1086/735924 |
| OpenAlex | W4412746572 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This essay proposes a reading of Frantz Fanon to examine resistance during the tenth Ebola epidemic in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018-2020). This reading centers on Fanon's study of atmospheres, which is missing in current debates on atmosphere. Specifically, I suggest that Fanon was less concerned with the justification for violent resistance than with describing the atmosphere of violence that governed the Algerian War of Independence. Fanon seeks to convey the collective presentiment that the liberation struggle ends in a veritable human disaster. Following Fanon, this essay will explore the felt disasters of epidemics and war created by the public health response in the DRC. In addition, I will draw on Fanon to illuminate the felt changes of the Ebola response inspired by an atmosphere of creativity
Atmosphere (unit · Geography · Meteorology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Disaster Management and Resilience · History
Ebola
Epidemic Illusions
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Ebola is a business’
Clinician and Revolutionary
System der Philosophie
The war that doesn't say its name
Leib und Situation. Zum Theorie- und Forschungsprogramm der Neophänomenologischen Soziologie
Staging atmospheres
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Phenomenology of Perception
Toward the African Revolution
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
Medicine Anthropology Theory
Suggestions of Movement
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
The endurance of critique
Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
Introduction
Outliving Death
Rural boredom
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
A Nervous State
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |