The Political Ecology of Malaria: Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nAbbreviations\nFigures and Tables\n1. Introduction\nRelevance of the study and literature\nThe need for an ecological context\nResearch questions\nOutline of the book\n2. Malaria: A brief overview\nIntroduction\nGlobal Perspective\nThe parasite’s life cycle\nThe interplay of humans, mosquitoes, and parasites\nMalaria in numbers\nProgression of the disease\nMalaria testing and treatment of clinical malaria\nMalaria treatment\nLocal understandings of malaria\nPlurality of meanings, syncretic models\nPerceptions of malaria: a “killer disease”?\n3. Ethnographic research in Uganda: Language and ethics in the field\nInitial considerations\nInterdisciplinary research projects and their methodological implications\nQualitative research in a foreign research setting: the issue of language\nWorking with an interpreter\nHiring an assistant\nDoing research, constructing the field\nPositionality: A German researcher in Uganda\nDoing research in a health facility\n4. Kampala’s urban fringe: Socio-economic dynamics and transformations\nCentral Uganda\nInfrastructure\nThe Namulonge Research Farm\nWetlands\nLand ownership and land use\nStructural adjustment: the 1998 Uganda Land Act\nColonial legacies: the introduction of mailo land\nMailo land in Namulonge\nHealth in local context\nHealth care in Uganda\n5. Providing malaria treatment: Different forms of healthcare in Uganda\nIntroduction\nSelf-medication and individualized conceptions of health\nMapping healthcare\nHealthcare in Uganda: Historical Perspective\nFormalized healthcare\nInformal healthcare\n6. Coping with malaria: Facets of health seeking\nIntroduction\nCosts of biomedical malaria treatment\nMalaria treatment outside the biomedical arena\nPeter\nGerald\nMukyala Nakakande\n7. Agriculture in the urban fringe: The ambivalent role of wetlands\nWetland agriculture and mosquitoes\nMalaria and Agriculture\nWetlands as economic resource\nWetland mining\nFisheries\nMalaria and agriculture: local perceptions\nMalaria campaigns and wetland agriculture\nWetlands as a last resort\nThe ambivalent character of wetlands\n8. Conclusion\nIntroduction\nOutlook\nReferences