eprintid: 30372
rev_number: 80
userid: 6290
dir: disk0/00/03/03/72
datestamp: 2017-02-24 18:55:44
lastmod: 2017-02-25 06:15:04
status_changed: 2017-02-24 18:55:44
type: thesis_degree
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: kalistull@gmail.com
eprint_status: archive
creators_name: Stull, Kali
creators_email: KMS296@pitt.edu
creators_id: KMS296
title: Vectors of risk, bodies that breathe
ispublished: unpub
divisions: sch_gsph_behavioralcommhealthsci
full_text_status: public
keywords: new materialism, Dengue, Jakarta, mosquito, Aedes aegypti, pesticide, intra-action, natureculture, risks, affect
abstract: Fogging pyrethroid-based pesticides is a routine component of vector management strategies in Jakarta, Indonesia with the aim to kill the Aedes aegypti mosquito and reduce Dengue infections. As more mosquitoes become resistant to pesticide, fogging is an ineffective technology to reduce mosquito populations. This thesis tells a historical epidemiological multi-species narrative about Dengue in a megacity. Power and agency are noticed as dynamic forces that shape the illness experience and the choice to continue fogging. The thesis brings forth questions: “how do mosquitoes, viruses, and humans co-create one another?, how do power differentials shape public health intervention decisions?, how do nonhumans and technology act in ways that are disparate from humans intelligence and intention?, and how might affirming the inseparability of nature and culture resign humans to live together with mosquitoes in a way that reduces harmful viral mixing? Public Health statement: By discussing mosquitoes’, virus’, and residents’ response to fogging and tracking the ways pyrethroid risks are made invisible, the author suggests that fogging itself is a risk. As 60% of infectious diseases that affect humans spend part of their life course in a nonhuman animal, this considered approach toward the vector’s ability to make meaning and exercise agency inspires illuminating questions about zoonotic diseases.
date: 2016-11-25
date_type: submitted
pages: 94
institution: University of Pittsburgh
refereed: TRUE
etdcommittee_type: thesis_advisor
etdcommittee_type: committee_member
etdcommittee_type: committee_member
etdcommittee_name: Documet, Patricia
etdcommittee_name: Margaret, Potter
etdcommittee_name: Olga, Kuchinskaya
etdcommittee_email: pdocumet@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: mapotter@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: okuchins@pitt.edu
etd_defense_date: 2016-12-09
etd_approval_date: 2017-02-24
etd_submission_date: 2016-12-02
etd_release_date: 2017-02-24
etd_access_restriction: immediate
etd_patent_pending: FALSE
thesis_type: thesis
degree: MPH
citation:   Stull, Kali  (2016) Vectors of risk, bodies that breathe.  Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/30372/9/Fogging%20%281%29.m4a
document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/30372/10/KaliStull_Thesis_December2016.pdf