Ep. 2: Ciudad Sandino and the Ecological Roots of Pandemics Contagion Religion Cities

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 Contagion, Religion, and Cities 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.

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