Cartographies of Cancer

A Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the cartographic infrastructures mapping malignancy across sub-Sarahan Africa.

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Very pleased to announce that our collective piece on 'Provincialising Global Oncology' has been published in BMJ Global Health!

Article: https://t.co/28pVjvFqmE

Summary: https://t.co/w2Xz0LAiLe

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Recently we were delighted to host a wonderful workshop on 'Body Worlds: Mapping health from the inside out'.

Watch the great video for more info or go to our website:

https://t.co/HyM94tetCF

https://t.co/HH8C71TqxS

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

We are pleased to announce that one of our postdocs will be heading over to Oxford next year to start a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on women doctors in sub-Saharan Africa.

Congratulations Thandeka and good luck with this next chapter!

[Thandeka Cochrane @ThandekaCochran]

Very excited to share that earlier this year I was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the @oxford_anthro department!

Find out more about my project on women doctors in sub-Saharan Africa on the Leverhulme website:
https://t.co/qbDcPLLPYm

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Big news!

Our article on 'Cartographic Infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa' is finally out in Social Studies of Science!

https://t.co/HSG71kUBre

[cc @ccaduff]

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Inequalities job at King's College London https://t.co/rXuCXRRgTv

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

The next episode of the Political Stakes Podcast is live!

@ThandekaCochran speaks to Ruth Prince about her fascinating but difficult work with cancer patients in Kenya.

https://t.co/AdKSFDnwXo

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Episode 10 of the Political Stakes of Cancer podcast is out!

Noemi Tousignant talks about her fascinating work on liver cancer in Senegal. Give it a listen!

https://t.co/3wdwkAxx7k

[Thandeka Cochrane @ThandekaCochran]

🚨CfP - Don't forget to submit to our panel on 'Carcinogenesis, Toxicity and the Epidemic of Cancer,' at the Health, Enviro and Anthro conference!
@durham_uni, Apr 23-24, 2025 @RoyalAnthro

https://t.co/0gLcLQL1kF

[Jenn Fraser @JennFraser2]

Happy to announce that a new article from the @cancermaps team is now live! Read on for an interesting account of cancer models and the many forms they can take https://t.co/nbi4qfvZmw

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

The next episode of the Political Stakes of Cancer podcast is up!

Here Fabien Provost speaks to Nils Graber about studying cancer in two very different contexts - Cuba and Swizterland. Give it a listen.

https://t.co/lw9K7ThVOw

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Excited to announce that our paper on 'The Model Multiple' is out!

Part of the exciting SI from @EpidemyErc
on Data and Disease in Medical History the article explores the many meanings of cancer models in sub-Saharan Africa.

https://t.co/jgof7EwDIB

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

The next episode of the great Political Stakes of Cancer Series is up!

We speak to Mariss Mika about 'Africanizing Oncology' where she shares fascinating tales from the Uganda Cancer Institute and discusses the challenges of fieldwork.

Don't miss it!

https://t.co/EBIR22Fet3

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

CfP - Come join our panel!
Anthropologists & historians studying cancer and the environment, please submit your abstracts for the
@RoyalAnthro HEAT1 conference panel on 'Carcinogenesis, Toxicity and the Epidemic of Cancer,' Apr 23-24, 2025 @durham_uni

https://t.co/uIgIR2PKT9

[Thandeka Cochrane @ThandekaCochran]

Episode two of the podcast is out on @somatosphere!

This week I speak to Clemence Schantz on her incredible, and often harrowing work, with women suffering from breast cancer in Mali & Benin and the journeys they undertake to get treatment in France.

https://t.co/hXiT8AOSoM

[Thandeka Cochrane @ThandekaCochran]

Excited to announce the first episode of our podcast is live on @somatosphere!! Here I talk to Nikolas Surawy-Stepney about 'Pain without Painkillers', stories of morphine from India.

Take a listen and tell us what you think!

https://t.co/5tmRkFMnTY

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

The podcast series 'The Political Stakes of Cancer' featuring our postdoc @ThandekaCochran and many of our collaborators talking about social science, anthropology and cancer is now live on @somatosphere!

Take a listen and tell us what you think. Episodes coming weekly.

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

New article out!

On 'The Political Stakes of Cancer Epistemics', co-authored by team member Thandeka Cochrane.

Questioning carcinogenic accountability, individualisation of risk, socially situated cancer detection and careful cancer therapeutics.

https://t.co/4dDFJLrfoR

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

That's a wrap! A wonderful three days of work shopping at the stunning @Fond_Brocher has come to an end.

Oncologists, social scientists, historuans, medical statisticians all in one room to discuss the impact of new cancer technologies in the global south.

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

We are very excited to announce that our paper, "Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"" - is finally out!

https://t.co/7F7aALxOZB

[Cartographies of Cancer @cancermaps]

Cancer research at the 4S in Amsterdam!

The Political Stakes of Cancer Network has a panel on 'Transforming the study of Cancer' - Works exploring carcinogenic leaks, cancer politics, and epistemic absences are particularly welcome. Apply!

https://t.co/RYGeMRby35