Epidemics and Othering (eBook, PDF)

The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: transcript Verlag
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783839465059
• Artikelnr.: 67788525

Autorenporträt

Heike Steinhoff is Junior Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research focuses on American media culture from the 19th to the 21st century, gender studies, body studies, and urban studies. She is the author of two monographs, one on makeovers and monstrosities in American culture and the other one on pirates in Hollywood cinema. She has also published on hipster culture, literary discourses of urban sexuality in 19th century America, gender in children's movies, filmic representations of metropolitan masculinities, and the interrelations of body positivity, self-help literature and popular feminisms.

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Besprochen in: InfoDienst Migration, 1 (2024)