Epidemics and Othering
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Epidemics and Othering

The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Epidemics and Othering

The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

About this book

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regard to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond, as they discuss othering dynamics in the context of post/colonialism and with reference to a number of different cultural, political, medical and media discourses.

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Information

Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783837665055
eBook ISBN
9783839465059
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Biopolitics, Othering, and the COVID‑19 Pandemic: A Critical Introduction
  6. 2. Pandemics, Biopolitics and Coloniality: From Chronicles of the Indies to COVID‑19 Fictions
  7. 3. ‘Enlightened’ Colonialism, Smallpox, and the Indigenous Other in Late Eighteenth‐Century Mexico and Guatemala
  8. 4. ‘Civilizing the Natives’ with Modern Medicine: Strategies of Othering in the Implementation of Public Hygiene in Japan‐Ruled Taiwan (1895–1945)
  9. 5. Fear of Contagion: Epistemology of Boundaries and Politics of Emotions in (Post)Colonial Development Discourses
  10. 6. The Other as Conspirator: Historical Roots of COVID‑19 Conspiracy Theories
  11. 7. The Quest for Tropical Nature: Utopia and Socio‐Spatial Dynamics in Brazil during the COVID‑19 Pandemic
  12. 8. Pandemic Play? Digital Sports Gaming, Fatness, and Contemporary Pandemic Imaginaries
  13. 9. The Virus Is Present, Presence Is Virulent: Being Co(m)present with Others in Times of the COVID‑19 Pandemic
  14. 10. The Necropolitics of Breathing: On the Scream as Resistance in Contemporary Sound Performances
  15. 11. Re‑Negotiating Discourses on AIDS during the COVID‑19 Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion
  16. Authors