title: Urban mosquitoes, situational publics, and the pursuit of interspecies separation in Dar es Salaam.
abstract: Recent work in anthropology points to the recognition of multispecies entanglements as the grounds for a more ethical politics. In this article, we examine efforts to control mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as an example of the laborious tasks of disentanglement that characterize public health interventions. The mosquito surveillance and larval elimination practices of an urban malaria control program offer an opportunity to observe how efforts to create distance between species relate to the physical and civic textures of the city. Seen in the particular context of the contemporary African metropolis, the work of public health appears less a matter of control than a commitment to constant urban maintenance and political mobilization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom, a.h.kelly@exeter.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ann H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, United Kingdom, javier.lezaun@insis.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lezaun
keywords: Dar es Salaam; cities; malaria; multispecies ethnography; public health