Epidemics and Othering The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives Heike Steinhoff

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steinhoff, Heike <p>Heike Steinhoff, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Series:

Global- und Kolonialgeschichte.

Global- und Kolonialgeschichte

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Other.

Othering.

Biopolitics.

Covid-19.

Pandemic.

Cultural History.

Medicine.

Global History.

History of Colonialism.

History.

Local Subjects:

Other.

Othering.

Biopolitics.

Covid-19.

Pandemic.

Cultural History.

Medicine.

Global History.

History of Colonialism.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Steinhoff (ed.), Epidemics and Othering The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

Besprochen in:InfoDienst Migration, 1 (2024)

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

1. Biopolitics, Othering, and the COVID‑19 Pandemic: A Critical Introduction

COVID‑19 and Biopolitics

COVID‑19 and the Politics of Othering

Framing Bodies, Selves/Others, and Affects during COVID‑19

The Ambiguity of Biopolitics in a Pandemic World

Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Epidemics and the (Bio)Politics of Othering

Works Cited

2. Pandemics, Biopolitics and Coloniality: From Chronicles of the Indies to COVID‑19 Fictions

The Contagious Other

Othering in COVID‑19 Fictions

Conclusions

3. 'Enlightened' Colonialism, Smallpox, and the Indigenous Other in Late Eighteenth‐Century Mexico and Guatemala

European Invasion and Demographic Crisis in New Spain

The 1780 Smallpox Outbreak in Guatemala

Smallpox in the Intendancy of Oaxaca (1796/97)

State Subjects and Othering

4. 'Civilizing the Natives' with Modern Medicine: Strategies of Othering in the Implementation of Public Hygiene in Japan‐Ruled Taiwan (1895-1945)

The 'Hygienic Turn' and Its Impact on Japanese Colonialism

The Redefinition of Chinese Cultural Heritage

Institutionalizing Hygiene in Taiwan

The Bubonic Plague as the Litmus Test of Japanese Disease Control in Taiwan

Othering Through Sanitation

Conclusion

5. Fear of Contagion: Epistemology of Boundaries and Politics of Emotions in (Post)Colonial Development Discourses

The Danger of Contagion: Epistemology of Delineation

International Development and Health Politics and Economic Security

International Development and Health Politics, Political Security and Colonial Amnesia

International Development and Health Politics and Competitive Capability

International Mission and Epidemics: Health as Religious Task.

Aesthetic Regimes of the Development Discourse: Othering Dynamics via Hypervisibility

Time and the Other: Multiple Temporalities

6. The Other as Conspirator: Historical Roots of COVID‑19 Conspiracy Theories

Anti‐Vaccination Movements and Anti‐Semitism in History

The Querdenker

7. The Quest for Tropical Nature: Utopia and Socio‐Spatial Dynamics in Brazil during the COVID‑19 Pandemic

A Few Remarks on Utopia and Tropical Nature in Brazil

"I Live in a Tropical Country": The Corona Paradise Project

Fugere Urbem: Gated Communities and Dreams of Mobility and Security in Brazil

Interviews

8. Pandemic Play? Digital Sports Gaming, Fatness, and Contemporary Pandemic Imaginaries

Disability Studies and Fat Bodies

The On‑Screen‐Fitness/Off‐Screen Fatness Binary and 'Two Pandemics'

(In lieu of a) Conclusion

9. The Virus Is Present, Presence Is Virulent: Being Co(m)present with Others in Times of the COVID‑19 Pandemic

(Mediated) Presence and Othering

From Copresence to Compresence

Co(m)presence in the Zoom Room

Audiovisual Compresence as Filmic Trans/Individuation

Share the Square

Compresence with Others-Talking Heads and Split Screens

Compresence with the Environment-Bodies and Backgrounds

Compresence with Media-Monitoring Monitors

10. The Necropolitics of Breathing: On the Scream as Resistance in Contemporary Sound Performances

Deep Breathing, "U Don't Know My Name, U Don't Know My Name"

Losing One's Breath and Voice

Troubled Air and the Scream as Resistance

11. Re‑Negotiating Discourses on AIDS during the COVID‑19 Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion.

In how far can pandemic narratives surrounding SARS‐CoV‑2/COVID‑19 be linked to those surrounding HIV/AIDS?

What are pitfalls of the comparison of SARS‐CoV‑2/COVID‑19 and HIV/AIDS and where do you see narrative ruptures?

How do other factors of social differentiation - beyond those already discussed - intersect with and complicate narratives of disease?

Simon Dickel

Roselyne Masamha and Lennon Mhishi

Florian Zitzelsberger

Authors.

ISBN:

9783839465059

3839465052

OCLC:

1409028363