Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Härting, Heike; Meek, Heather

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003853312
• Artikelnr.: 70001308

Autorenporträt

Heike Härting is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada. Heather Meek is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersecting Narratives of Planetary Thought and Pandemics,
Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Section A: Pandemic Anxieties and Historical Genealogies of Planetary
Health
1 "So Spreading and Penetrating a Disease": Margaret Cavendish's
Imaginative Landscapes of Plague
Heather Meek
2 Lactination: Planetary Bodies and Their Fluid Encounters in the Early
Vaccination Narrative
Anna E. MacDonald
3 Mobilizing Health between the Global and the Planetary: Apollo 11,
Airstream, and NASA's Planetary Quarantine Program
Richard A. McKay
Section B: Reading Planetary Health Narratives: Epistemology, Theory, and
Practice
4 Decolonial Epi-pathographies of Planetary Health: Tragedy, Policy, Art
Heike Härting
5 Little COVID-19, All Grown Up in the Planetary: Reconsidering Health
Humanities Instrumentalism in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shane Neilson
6 Tiger Symmetries: Pandemic as Gift
Larissa Lai
7 Historicizing Planetary Health Policy: Health Work and Wages across
Global and Planetary Health
Ramah McKay
Section C: Pandemic Ontologies, Body Politics, and a Planetary Health
Commons
8 Contagious Bodies: A Pandemic of Racism
Yasmin Jiwani
9 #Zoombies: Cybernetic Trance in Pandemic Times
Samuele Collu
10 Planetary Health (In)humanities: Disordering the Colony Collapse
Olivia Banner and Kathryn Whitlock
11 Narrating the Uncanny Triad: Imagining Microbe, Animal, and Human
Entanglements within the Planetary Health Humanities
Leonie Bossert and Davina Höll
12 Entangled Humanism and Impersonal Circuits of Imperial Power: An
Interview with William Connolly
Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Index