Faculty

Ezekiel Kalipeni

Ezekiel Kalipeni
  • Associate Professor of Geography
  • Research interests:
    Medical Geography, Population Studies,
    Environmental Issues, Health Care, Africa,
  • Office: 122 Davenport Hall
  • Phone: 244-7708
  • E-mail: kalipeni@uiuc.edu

Ezekiel Kalipeni is a population/medical/environmental geographer interested in demographic, health, environmental, and resource issues in sub-Saharan Africa. He has carried out extensive research on the population dynamics of Malawi and Africa in general concentrating on fertility, mortality, migration and health care issues. He is currently working on HIV/AIDS in Africa and population and environmental issues in Malawi.

Courses

Recent Publications

Edited Books


Kalipeni, E., Zerai, A. and Oppong J. R. (eds.) (forthcoming-currently under review) HIV/AIDS in Africa: Gender, Agency and Empowerment. Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine.

Kalipeni, E., Craddock, S., Oppong, J. and Ghosh, J. eds.  (2004). HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, xvii +398pp.

Kalipeni, E. and Zeleza, P. T. eds. 1999.  Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, viii +370pp.

Kalipeni, E. and Oppong, J. eds. 1999. AIDS, Health Care Systems and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking and Re-Appraisal. Special Issue of African Rural and Urban Studies Vol 3(2) (1996). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 195pp. 

Kalipeni, E. and Philip Thiuri, eds. 1997. Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xi + 419pp.

Kalipeni, E. ed. 1994. Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Southern Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, xii +236pp.

Refereed Articles in Journals


Kalipeni, E. and Ghosh, J. (forthcoming, currently under review). “Worry and Practice Among Men about HIV/AIDS in Low Socioeconomic Income Areas of Lilongwe, Malawi.” Social Science and Medicine.

Kalipeni, E. and Mbugua, N. (in press) “A Review of Prevention Efforts in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS in Africa.” Norwegian Journal of Geography.

Oppong, J. and Kalipeni, E. (in press, 2005) “The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa: A Political Ecology Approach.” Africa Today 51(4) or 52(1).

Kalipeni, E. 2004. “Structural Adjustment and the Health Care Crisis in Malawi.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 21(1), pp. 23-30.

Kalipeni, E. and Zulu, L. 2002.  “From Top-down to Bottom-up: the Difficult Case of the Blantyre City Fuelwood Project” Journal of Southern African Studies 28(1), pp. 117-135. 

Kalipeni, E. 2000. “Health and Disease in Southern Africa: A Comparative and Vulnerability Perspective.” Social Science and Medicine 50(7), pp. 965-983. 

Kalipeni, E. and Feder, D. 1999. “Environmental Change in the Blantyre Fuelwood Project Area in Malawi: A Political Ecology Perspective.” Politics and Life Sciences  18(1), pp.37-54 

Kalipeni, E. 1999. “AIDS and Condom Promotion in Malawi: A Critical Review.” African Rural and Urban Studies 3(2), pp.61-90. 

Oppong, J. and Kalipeni, E. 1999. “A Cross-Cultural Perspective on AIDS in Africa: A Response to Rushing.” African Rural and Urban Studies 3(2), pp. 91-112. 

Kalipeni, E. and Oppong, J. 1999. “Introduction: Rethinking and Re-Appraising AIDS, Health Care Systems and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa.” African Rural and Urban Studies  3(2), pp. 1-7.  

Kalipeni, E. and Oppong, J.  1998 . “The Refugee Crisis in Africa and Implications for Health and Disease: A Political Ecology Approach.” Social Science and Medicine 46(12), pp. 1637-1653. 

Kalipeni, E. 1997. "Population Pressure, Social Change, Culture and Malawi’s Pattern of  Fertility Transition." African Studies Review 40(2), pp. 173-208. 

Kalipeni, E. 1997. “Contained Urban Growth in Post-Independence Malawi.” East African Geographical Review 19(2), pp. 49-66. 

Kalipeni, E. 1997. "Gender and Regional Differences in Schooling Between Boys and Girls in Malawi." East African Geographical Review 19(1), pp. 14-32. 

Kalipeni, E.  1997. "Regional Polarization in Voting Pattern: Malawi’s 1994 Elections." African Journal of Political Science 2(1), pp. 152-167. 

Kalipeni, E. 1996. “Transition to Democracy in Malawi: The Role of Internal and External Forces.”  21st Century Afro-Review 2(2), pp. 49-77. 

Kalipeni, E. 1996. "Demographic Response to Environmental Pressure in Malawi." Population and Environment 17(4),  pp. 285-308. 

Kalipeni, E. and Kamlongera, E. 1996. "Mobilizing Rural Communities for Primary Health Care: The Case of Liwonde PHC Unit in Southern Malawi." Journal of Social Development in Africa 11(1), pp. 53-78. 

Kalipeni, E. 1995. "The Fertility Transition in Africa." Geographical Review 85(2), pp. 287-301. 

Kalipeni, E. 1995. "The AIDS Pandemic in Malawi: A Somber Reflection." 21st Century Afro Review 1(2), pp. 73-110. 

Kalipeni, E. and Harrington, L. 1995. "Regional Variations of Fertility in Malawi." Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives 14(1&2), pp. 222-248. 

Kalipeni, E. 1993. "Determinants of Infant Mortality in Malawi: A Spatial Perspective." Social Science and Medicine 37(2), pp. 183-198. 

Kalipeni, E. and Zulu, E. 1993. "Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Modern and Traditional Methods of Child Spacing in Malawi." Population Research and Policy Review 12(2), pp. 103-121. 

Kalipeni, E. 1992. "Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Malawi." Africa Insight 22(4), pp. 273-282. 

Kalipeni, E. 1992. "Population Redistribution in Malawi Since Independence in 1964." Geographical Review 82(1), pp. 13-28. 

Kalipeni, E. 1992. "Political Development and Prospects for Democracy in Malawi." TransAfrica Forum 9(1), pp. 27-40. 

Chapters in Books


Kalipeni, E.; Oppong, J. R. and Ofori_Amoah, B. (forthcoming) “Trajectories of Modern African Geography.” In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (ed.) Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies: The African Challenge. Rochester: Rochester University Press.

Kalipeni, E.; Zamor, S. and Ghosh, J. (2004, in press) “AIDS and Intergenerational Communication Among Urban Women in Lilongwe, Malawi.” In Grace B. Kyomuhendo (ed.), Gendered Worlds: Health Perspectives. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers.

Kalipeni, E.; Oppong, J. R. and Ofori_Amoah, B. 2004. “The Geography of Africa.” In Gary Gaile and Cort Willmott, eds., Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 565-585.

Oppong, J. R. and Kalipeni, E. 2004. “Perceptions and Misperceptions of AIDS in Africa.” In E. Kalipeni; S. Craddock; J. Oppong and J. Ghosh, eds. HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 47-57.

Kalipeni, E.; Craddock, S. and Ghosh, J. 2004. “Mapping the AIDS Pandemic: The Geographical Progression of HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa.” In E. Kalipeni; S. Craddock; J. Oppong and J. Ghosh, eds. HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 58-69.

Ghosh, J. and Kalipeni, E. 2004. “Rising Tide of AIDS Orphans in Southern Africa.” In E. Kalipeni; S. Craddock; J. Oppong and J. Ghosh, eds. HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 304-315.

Oppong, J. and Kalipeni, E. 2003. “A Cross-Cultural Perspective on AIDS in Africa: A Response to Rushing.” In William G. Moseley (ed.) Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues. Guilford, Connecticut: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Company, pp. 253-259 (reprinted from African Rural and Urban Studies, Vol. 3(2), 1996).

Zulu, E. and Kalipeni, E. 2003, “Changes in Reproductive Ideology and Its Control from Natural to Limited Fertility Regimes in Malawi.” In Samuel Agyei-Mensah and John Casterline eds., Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.  

Kalipeni, E. 2000. “Health and Society in Southern Africa.” In York Bradshaw and Stephen Ndegwa, eds.,  Southern Africa: The Uncertain Promise. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 327-362. 

Kalipeni, E. and Mijere, N. 2000. “Population and Environment: The Political Economy of Resource Distribution in Transkei, South Africa.” In Moses Tesi, ed. The Environment and  Development in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books – A Division of Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 269-292. 

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe and Kalipeni, E. 1999. “Rethinking Space, Politics and Society in Africa.” In Kalipeni, E. and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds. Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes, pp. 1-13. Lawrenceville, NJ.: Africa World Press. 

Kalipeni, E. 1999. “The Spatial Context of Lilongwe’s Growth and Development in Malawi.” In Kalipeni, E. and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds. Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes, pp. 73-108. Lawrenceville, NJ.: Africa World Press. 

Kalipeni, E. and Thiuri, P. 1997. "Africa's Superficial Epidemiologic Transition." In Kalipeni, E. and Thiuri, P. eds., Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 1-20. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. 

Kalipeni, E. and Kamlongera, C. 1997. "The Role of 'Theatre for Development' in Mobilizing Rural Communities for Primary Health Care: The Case of Liwonde PHC Unit in Southern Malawi." In Kalipeni, E. and Thiuri, P. eds., Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 307-328. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press  (Also appears in African Journal of Social Development, see above under refereed articles). 

Kalipeni, E. 1997. "The AIDS Pandemic in Malawi: A Somber Reflection." In Kalipeni, E. and Thiuri, P. eds., Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 23-48. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press (Also appears in 21st Century Afro Review, see above under refereed articles).  

Kalipeni, E. 1995. "Demographic and Spatial Aspects of the Health Care Delivery System in Malawi." In Eugene B. Gallagher and Janardan Subedi, eds., Global Perspectives on Health Care. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall. 

Kalipeni, E. 1995. "The Role of the United States in Africa’s Colonization  and Decolonization."  In Dilip H. Mohite, ed., India, the USA and the Emerging World Order: Essays in History, Politics and International Relations. Baroda, India: M.S. University Press. 

Kalipeni, E. 1995. "Malawi-USA Relations and Political Change in Malawi: The Post-Independence Experience, 1964-1993." In Macharia Munene; J. D. Olewe Nyunya and Korwa Adar, eds. The United States and Africa: From Independence to the Cold War, pp. 139-169. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers Ltd. 

Kalipeni, E. 1994. "Southern Africa's Expanding Population." In E. Kalipeni, ed., Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Southern Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers.  

Kalipeni, E. 1994. "Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Malawi." In E. Kalipeni, ed., Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Southern Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 

Kalipeni, E. 1993. "On the Brink of Disaster: Environmental Issues in Central Africa." In Planet Management. Edited by Michael Williams. London: Oxford University Press. 

Kalipeni, E. 1992. "Central African Cities: Islands of Development." In Human Settlement. Edited by John R. Short. London: Oxford University Press.