follow the thing

Production and audio editing by Claire Louise Travers.

In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Sodero describes how blood moves from the point of donation to  the point of care. Check out a scrollable illustration about blood mobilities here.

Dr. Stephanie Sodero is a Lecturer in Responses to Climate Crises at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. She researches vital mobilities -- how goods, such as blood, saline IV solution, and oxygen move from  the point of donation/manufacture to the point of care, and in what ways  these supply chains are vulnerable to a changing climate.

'follow the thing' features the stories of researchers who follow mobile medical materials through the supply chain from production to distribution to delivery. Mobile medical materials include donated blood, medications used to terminate pregnancies, patient data - and much more! They are vital mobilities that impact human health, and require extensive societal circulations to enable critical internal, bodily circulations.

Production and audio editing by Claire Louise Travers.

Dr. Sydney Calkin is a senior lecturer at the  Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography, where she studies the political geographies of abortion access. She is the author of Human Capital in Gender and Development (2018) and is a co-editor of After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics (2020). She is a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2017-2020) and an HSS Collaboration Fund Grant (2020-2021).

'follow the thing' features the stories of researchers who follow mobile medical materials through the supply chain from production to distribution to delivery. Mobile medical materials include donated blood, medications used to terminate pregnancies, patient data - and much more! They are vital mobilities that impact human health, and require extensive societal circulations to enable critical internal, bodily circulations.

Production and audio editing by Claire Louise Travers.

In this episode, Dr. Coredlia Freeman tells us the story of misoprostol - a medication originally designed for gastric ulcers, which is now a lifeline for women and girls in Latin America. Check out a graphic novella about misoprostol here.

Dr. Cordelia Freeman is a political geographer at the School of Geography, University of Exeter. Her work is broadly on borders, mobility, and violence and to date has  almost entirely been based in Latin America. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust and ESRC funded research project looking at abortion im/mobilities across Latin America.

'follow the thing' features the stories of researchers who follow  mobile medical materials through the supply chain from production to  distribution to delivery. Mobile medical materials include donated  blood, medications used to terminate pregnancies, patient data - and  much more! They are vital mobilities that impact human health, and  require extensive societal circulations to enable critical internal,  bodily circulations.

Production and audio editing by Claire Louise Travers.