The cultural politics of COVID-19 / edited by John Nguyet Erni, Ted Striphas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erni, John Nguyet, editor.

Striphas, Theodore G., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.

Pandemics--Social aspects.

Pandemics.

Pandemics--Political aspects.

Social medicine.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Contents:

1. Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier / John Nguyet Erni and Ted Striphas

Racializations

2. COVID-19 and the mundane practices of privilege / Kumarini Silva

3. Following the science? COVID-19, 'race' and the politics of knowing / John Clarke

4. 'Give me liberty or give me COVID!' : Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency / Jack Bratich

5. Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic / Lisa B. Y. Calvente

6. Asian Americans as racial contagion / Madhavi Mallapragada

7. COVID-19 and 'crisis as ordinary': pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies / Josh Smicker

8. COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion : an exploration of population density debates in Australia / Sukhmani Khorana

9. The long and deadly road : the COVID pandemic and Indian migrants / Raka Shome

Media, Data, and Fragments of the Popular

10. New normals, from talk to gesture / Chris Ingraham

11. Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era / Jeffrey A. Bennett

12. Virus government

A twenty-first-century genealogy of the 'dusk mask' as biopolitical technology / James Hay

13. Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19 / Yeran Kim

14. Predicting COVID-19 : wearable technology and the politics of solutionism / James N. Gilmore

15. Learning from Lana : Netflix's Too Hot to Handle/I, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture / Fan Yang

16. COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management / Ravindra N. Mohabeer

17. Parodies for a pandemic : coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown / Jon Stratton

18. Fashion in 'crisis': consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown / Rimi Khan and Harriette Richards

19. Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time / Elmo Gonzaga

20. No time for fun : the politics of partying during a pandemic / Nicholas Holm

Un/knowing the Pandemic

21. Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless / Rebecca A. Adelman

22. The dead-end of ad-hocracy / Charles R. Acland

23. The spectacle of competence : global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world / Leon Gurevitch

24. The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths / Mette Hjort

25. Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture / Alexander J. Means and Graham B. Slater

26. Mistranslation as disinformation : COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism / Sheng Zou

27. Religion and urban political eco/patholog y: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia / Asif Mehmood, Sajjad Hasnain and Muhammad Azam

28. Doing cultural studies in rough seas : the COVID-19 ocean multiple / Elspeth Probyn

29. COVID-19 at sea : 'the world as you know it no longer exists' / Christiaan De Beukelaer

30. Back to the future : lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic / Allen Chun

31. Beyond the crisis : transitioning to a better world? / Ien Ang

Index.

Notes:

The chapter in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Cultural studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1032301864

9781032301860

OCLC:

1305915491

Publisher Number:

99993695558