Contagion : Between Contiguity and Community / Mateusz Chaberski, Dorota Sosnowska, Małgorzata Sugiera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaberski, Mateusz, editor.

Sosnowska, Dorota, editor.

Sugiera, Małgorzata, editor.

Series:

Medical & Health Humanities , 2940-9632 ; 7

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 322 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

M. Chaberski , Jagiellonian University, Kraków; D. Sosnowska , University of Warsaw; M. Sugiera , Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

Summary:

The volume rests on the assumption that by showing intricate relations between infectious diseases and various socio-political and environmental crises the COVID-19 pandemic has put into question the epidemiological discourse of contagion. Through readings of cultural and artistic practices, the volume proposes a new approach to contagion beyond epidemiology by articulating the key role of contagion and its embodied experiences in building human and more-than-human communities. Part 1 explores the relationship between embodied experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the activity of sense-making in the context of living after the lockdowns. Part 2 moves outside the human realm to investigate how contagion is contingent upon various ecosocial and ecopolitical processes and phenomena rooted in the violent legacy of European colonialisms. Part 3 searches for new models of community by redefining immunity and tracing manifold entanglements of bodies, institutions, and viruses that foster practices of care and healing that go beyond the modern Western conception of health. Thus, the volume may become important source of knowledge and inspiration for academics and PhD students interested in theorizing contagion in the wake of COVID-19.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

IXNotes on Contributors

When Contagions Meet / Małgorzata Sugiera

"Viruses Can Be Our Guides in Thinking About Our Planetary Parasitism." Interview with Bishnupriya Ghosh / Mateusz Chaberski, Dorota Sosnowska

Embodying Contagion as Metaphor

2829Introduction / Dorota Sosnowska

Contagious Gain: An Epidemic We Made / Małgorzata Sugiera

On the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence: COVID-19 and the Witches / Dorota Sosnowska

Contagion as a Metaphor of Old Age: Rhizomatic Images of Female Aging in Three Contemporary Horror Films / Marta Miquel-Baldellou

The Pedagogical Shift in Embodied Learning within the Online Realm / Bilge Serdar

Mapping Contagious Environments

120121Introduction / Mateusz Chaberski

Contiguity to Contagion: Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora (2015) as an Outbreak Narrative in the Anthropocene / Mateusz Borowski

The Colonial Gaze: British India and its 'Contagious' Environment / Rituparna Ray Chowdhury

Flattening the Curve: A Metaphor for the End of the World (As We Know It) / Michał Pałasz

Staying with the Fable: Jakub Kornhauser's In amplexu as a Narrative for the Contaminated World / Patryk Szaj

Reassembling the Social through Contagion

210211Introduction / Dorota Sosnowska

The Contagious Foreigner / Stephen E. Wilmer

A Contagious Performance of the Invisible: Interconnectivity of Crisis and Community in Contemporary Haitian Art and Reality / Dorota Sajewska

Gaslighting Health: Human and More-Than-Human Communities of Lyme Disease / Mateusz Chaberski

Corona Fictions Database: Witnessing Artistic Contagion in the Digital Realm / Elisabeth Hobisch, Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr

"It Matters Tremendously Who Is Wielding Interpretive Force." Interview with Elizabeth A. Povinelli / Mateusz Chaberski, Dorota Sosnowska

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed August 05 2026)

ISBN:

9783112234983