Disaster research.
I visited Freetown, Sierra Leone, before the Ebola crisis, in January 2014, when the city was recovering from another hazard–cholera. I was sent to Allen Town, a suburb outside Freetown, to write about its peripheral health unit (a peripheral health unit … Continued
A life history is someone’s first person account of his or her life, or an aspect therein. Life histories capture how things change over time from a respondent’s own perspective, so are well suited for longitudinal studies of complex and … Continued