Contagion (eBook, ePUB)

Health, Fear, Sovereignty
Redaktion: Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial disaster becomes a framework for larger questions about the nature and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the hazards of sociability, the security of surveillance, and what a healthy security might mean. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295804200
• Artikelnr.: 44785400

Autorenporträt

Edited by Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Hydra of Contagion
Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua
1 Rethinking the War on Terror
New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World
Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian
2 Epidemic Intelligence
Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security
Andrew Lakoff
3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect
Geoffrey Whitehall
4 Bio Terror
Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our
Monsters
Priscilla Wald
5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo's
Post-Cold War World-System
Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture
Christian Moraru
6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels
Alberto S. Galindo
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index