The mismatch of narratives and local ecologies in the everyday governance of water access and mosquito control in an urbanizing community

Evans, M.V. and Bhatnagar, Siddharth and Drake, J.M. and Murdock, C.C. and Rice, J.L. and Mukherjee, S. (2023) The mismatch of narratives and local ecologies in the everyday governance of water access and mosquito control in an urbanizing community. Health & Place, 80. p. 102989. ISSN 13538292

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Abstract

Mosquito-borne disease presents a significant threat to urban populations, but risk can be uneven across a city due to underlying environmental patterns. Urban residents rely on social and economic processes to control the environment and mediate disease risk, a phenomenon known as everyday governance. We studied how households employed everyday governance of urban infrastructure relevant to mosquito-borne disease in Bengaluru, India to examine if and how inequalities in everyday governance manifest in differences in mosquito control. We found that governance mechanisms differed for water access and mosquitoes. Economic and social capital served different roles for each, influenced by global narratives of water and vector control.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Evans, M.V. and Bhatnagar, Siddharth and Drake, J.M. and Murdock, C.C. and Rice, J.L. and Mukherjee, S.
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development Public Health
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7044
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102989

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