ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to a global health crisis which feels as though it occurred in another lifetime: Ebola. In making sense of the 2014–2016 west African outbreak, this chapter asks the question of whether humanitarian approaches to global health crisis are fit for purpose. It begins with Marc's story - a humanitarian worker who arrived in Sierra Leone after the outbreak ‘ended’. This chapter makes sense of the afterlife of the 2014-16 pandemic, by exploring what is produced by the global health emergency discourse – which is a rallying cry for many in our field. Delving into how power works within the intersections of the disciplinary and hegemonic domains, this chapter explores how cognitive framings which leverage the space of humanitarian responses to crisis leave the door open for further emergencies.
