Transforming Contagion : Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations /

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 cont...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bracken, Rachel Conrad, Cohn, Edward (Contribuidor), Conrad Bracken, Rachel (Contribuidor), Dahiya, Annu (Contribuidor), Fahs, Breanne (Contribuidor, Editor ), Gohr, Michelle Ashley (Contribuidor), Maley, Patrick (Contribuidor), Mann, Annika (Contribuidor, Editor ), Mendoza, Louis (Contribuidor), Mohler, Sadie (Contribuidor), Nadesan, Majia (Contribuidor), Rogers-Cooper, Justin (Contribuidor), Stage, Sarah (Contribuidor, Editor ), Swank, Eric (Contribuidor, Editor ), Tromp, Marlene (Contribuidor), Wharram, C. C. (Contribuidor), Wharram, C.C
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Feminism.
Humanities.
Infection.
Political science.
Politics, Practical.
Psychology.
Social media.
Social movements.
Social sciences.
Xenophobia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
contagion.
contagious.
feminism.
film.
humanities.
infection.
infectious.
literary.
politics.
psychology.
social media.
social movements.
social science.
vaccine.
virus.
xenophobia.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject
  • Part I. Quarantine/Exposure
  • 1. "A Proper Contagion" The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn
  • 2. Before the Cell, There Was Virus Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology
  • 3. Social (Ir)Responsibility Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity
  • 4. Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion
  • Part II. Flesh/Spirit
  • 5 Isn't Contagion Just a Metaphor? Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year
  • 6. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • 7. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition. Performative Revision and Subversion
  • Part III. Madness/Reason
  • 8. Viral Murder Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs
  • 9. Am I a Psychopath?
  • 10. Cult of the Penis. Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy
  • Part IV. Revolution/Bureaucracy
  • 11. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant. Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging
  • 12. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the
  • 13. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements
  • 14. Words on Fire Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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