Contagion – Health, Fear, Sovereignty : Health, Fear, Sovereignty
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Global Re-Visions
ISBN-10
0295991739
ISBN-13
9780295991733
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Imprint
University of Washington Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2012
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
GlobalizationCultural studiesCultural studiesGlobalization
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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.
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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