29. Oktober 2026, 16:15 Uhr

Foto: Michael Morgenstern

Luísa Reis-Castro, PhD (Anthropology, USC), zu Gast am Studio Naturen|Kulturen.

“When it comes to mosquitoes, the world will become Brazil,” a Brazilian entomologist remarked, as Brazil emerges as both a harbinger of planetary challenges and a source of possible solutions. Luísa Reis-Castro's book, How to Survive the Mosquito, argues that climate change is reshaping disease geographies and the geopolitics of science. It contributes to anthropological discussions at the intersection of STS, environmental humanities, and Latin American studies by asking: What does it mean to view a planet facing rising mosquito-borne diseases from Brazil’s perspective?
Drawing on multi-method research, including extensive multi-sited ethnography, Reis-Castro traces how Brazilian researchers framed mosquitoes as an opportunity to produce knowledge capable of challenging the Global North’s historical dominance in scientific production—even as they reproduced racialized inequalities within Brazil. By examining the geopolitics of knowledge, racialized imaginaries of Brazilianness, and the mobilization of nature to address planetary challenges, her book shows how novel mosquito projects were both technoscientific interventions and world-making endeavors.

Wann? 29. Oktober 2026, 16:15 – 17:45 Uhr

Wo? ESA1 West, 2. OG, R. 220

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