Healthscapes | Tabbi'at

Healthscapes is a research network at the intersection of health and environmental humanities in the Middle East and North Africa

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📢The 2nd #Healthscapes workshop "Healthscapes in Disruption" will be held on 12 June 2024 @UniofExeter. CFP deadline has been extended to 14 May 2024! Travel and accommodation costs will be covered! More info at https://t.co/JgeLcTwOeB and below👇👇

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📢The 2nd #Healthscapes workshop "Healthscapes in Disruption" will be held on 12 June 2024 @UniofExeter. CFP deadline has been extended to 14 May 2024! Travel and accommodation costs will be covered! More info at https://t.co/JgeLcTwOeB and below👇👇

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Special Collections was delighted to provide a special display of material from the Middle East Collections for the Healthscapes workshop. Find out more about the event below! ⬇️

For more information about our collections & how you can use them visit ➡️https://t.co/8OiSS6D1Dz

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#healthscapes workshop closes with an exciting keynote by @jenniferlderr on urban biomedicine, capitalism and public health in Egypt in the second half of the 20th c.

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@RubyHN3 discusses women's safe spaces in Syria in relation to space, empowerment and healing, as well as sexual and reproductive health.

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@RubyHN3 discusses women's safe spaces in Syria in relation to space, empowerment and healing, as well as sexual and reproductive health.

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Ahmet Karakaya traces the historical trajectories of abortion from the late-Ottoman times. Karakaya argues that the diverse Muslim moral reasoning regarding abortion engages with different sources of information such as science, religion, politics.

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Setting the scene for final panel of the #healthscapes workshop. Exciting 3 papers on worldbuilding through environment and health.

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Our last speaker for today's first panel is Hande Güzel, who discusses migration and medicine, specifically focusing on immigrant doctors in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In her talk @rebeccairvine15 explores post-WW2 malaria eradication schemes in Iraq and discusses new ideas about global health. The talk scrutinizes failure, resistance, and ecological dynamics of the eradication campaign.

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Our panel continues with Riyaz Chenganakkattil's discussion on Muslim pilgrimage, health, and disease. Chenganakkattil asks if we can imagine narrative #healthscapes that allows an alternative reading of experiences of Muslim pilgrims across the Indian Ocean.

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Our first speaker for the 2nd day of #healthscapes workshop is @handeyalnizoglu who discusses cholera treatises in the 19th c. Ottoman world.

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2nd day of #healthscapes workshop is about to begin. Stay tuned and please do visit our website https://t.co/y57TLpAo3y for news and future events of the Healthscapes | Tabbi'at network.

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#healthscapes workshop continues with another exciting paper by Livia Wick that discusses their new project on cancer in Beirut.

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Kreichati highlights how infrastructural arrangements for hydropower as well as the bureaucracies needed for their functioning shape nearby village communities’ entwinement with both the river and the state. #healthscapes

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Next up: Cynthia Krechiati discusses the Litani infrastructure/dam project resulted with a specific mode of governance (tarabot maslahi’) that corresponds to symbiotic form of living together. #healthscapes

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Lebanese state implemented the Litani river dam project, an infrastructure funded by Lebanon’s first loan from the World Bank in the mid-20th c.

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Missionary hospitals of the Church Missionary Society played a major role in earthquake recovery. The state was mostly absent. The case emphasizes the need to look at non-state actors as providers of recovery and Healthcare.

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The first speaker @DrTermagant speaks about the 1927 earthquake in Palestine and the role of church missionary society hospitals in that.

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#healthscapes workshop continues with yet another exciting panel with three papers focusing on collapse and its aftermaths.

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The 1927 earthquake was not a major one techtonically. The case study demonstrates the role of missionary hospitals/orphanages/schools in providing healthcare in the late Ottoman- early mandate period.