AO: Tichenor illustrates how the practices of certainty and exact “data” do not align with the differential meanings and spaces of understanding “malaria.” Despite the genre of the journal article, she is able to touch on nearly all levels of analysis. Her techno analysis and macro analysis are especially strong and she shows the interlinking between the growing global political will and focus on eradicating the “health problem of malaria” (with success being tracked via quantitative metrics) with the need for performativity of data at the local level.
AO: Tichenor is explicit in saying that malaria and all health problems in Senegal are in fact labor and infrastructural problems. She notes how difficult it is to disrupt the vision that global health problems can be addressed by the enumeration of short-term technological fixes.
