The Pathogens of Finance

How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease

Brent Z. Kaup, Kelly F. Austin (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520412491 (ISBN)

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The Pathogens of Finance is an exploration of how the rising power and profits of Wall Street underpin the contemporary increases in and inadequate responses to vector-borne disease. Over the past fifty years, insects have transmitted infectious diseases to humans with greater frequency and in more unexpected places. To examine this phenomenon, Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin take readers to the exurban homes of northern Virginia; the burgeoning agricultural outposts of Mato Grosso, Brazil; and the smallholder coffee farms of the Bududa District of eastern Uganda. Through these case studies, the authors illuminate how the broader financialization of society is intimately intertwined with both the creation of landscapes more conducive to vector-borne disease and the failure to prevent and cure such diseases throughout the world.

Brent Z. Kaup is Professor of Sociology at William & Mary and author of Market Justice: Political Economic Struggle in Bolivia. Kelly F. Austin is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at Lehigh University.

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. A Northern Invasion
2. The Worst Animal in the World
3. All That Remains Is Man and Mosquito
4. The Treatment of Fringe Benefits
5. Mosquito Derivatives
6. Treating from Home
7. The Bank of the Planet

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ; 16
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	9780520412491 / 9780520412491
Zustand	Neuware