Transforming contagion : risky contacts among bodies, disciplines, and nations / edited by Breanne Fahs [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fahs, Breanne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Epidemiology.

Communicable diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.) : 14 b-w figures

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively suggest contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine, define, or even exacerbate various contagions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject / Fahs, Breanne / Mann, Annika / Swank, Eric / Stage, Sarah

Part I. Quarantine/Exposure

1. "A Proper Contagion" The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn / Wharram, C. C.

2. Before the Cell, There Was Virus Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology / Dahiya, Annu

3. Social (Ir)Responsibility Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity / Conrad Bracken, Rachel

4. Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion / Nadesan, Majia

Part II. Flesh/Spirit

5 Isn't Contagion Just a Metaphor? Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Mann, Annika

6. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction / Rogers-Cooper, Justin

7. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition. Performative Revision and Subversion / Maley, Patrick

Part III. Madness/Reason

8. Viral Murder Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs / Tromp, Marlene

9. Am I a Psychopath? / Mohler, Sadie

10. Cult of the Penis. Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy / Gohr, Michelle Ashley

Part IV. Revolution/Bureaucracy

11. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant. Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging / Mendoza, Louis

12. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the / Cohn, Edward

13. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements / Swank, Eric

14. Words on Fire Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto / Fahs, Breanne

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813589602

0813589606

9780813589626

0813589622

OCLC:

1100434404