In the Time of Ebola

<p><b>The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown Sierra Leone when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. </b><b><i>In the Time of Ebola</i></b><b> is his account of the epidemic centering on the residents of a neighborhood swept up in the emergency.</b></p><p>Lipton follows the lives of young men and women over a period of seven years revealing what the epidemic looked like on the ground. He explores its causes impacts and legacies in a place where crisis might be considered the norm not the exception. The emergency was disruptive and challenging not least due to the short-term international response. Yet for many youths Ebola was a time of unusual clarity on the ambiguities around care work and coming of age experienced in a context of vast economic and social inequalities. Lipton shows how residents of this historically cosmopolitan West African city drew on centuries-old frameworks for managing foreign intervention.<i> In the Time of Ebola </i>questions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing researching and responding to emergencies that make the home the family and ordinary life their starting point.</p>