Episode 2: Ciudad Sandino and the Ecological Roots of Pandemics
Is there a relationship between our ecosystems and pandemics? How can we build sustainable infrastructures to mitigate pandemics and enhance human well-being? How does religion and technology inform our understandings of health and disease? How have women shaped the trajectory of public health?
The Religion & City Podcast addresses these important questions in the second episode as Alex Nading discusses his 2014 monograph, Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement, and its implications for the study of health, religion, and the city. Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen, co-directors of the Contagion, Religion, and Cities project, Harold Morales, the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City, Sierra Lynn Lawson, a member of the podcast team, Ben Saxx, Isaiah Ellis, Faye Wing, Joanna Crosby, Karim Amin, Christina Rosetti, Nala Price, and Samia Kirchner join the conversation.