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Description:Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial disaster becomes a framework for larger questions about the nature and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the hazards of sociability, the security of surveillance, and what a healthy security might mean. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself.Bruce Magnusson is associate professor of politics and the director of global studies and Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies, both at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.ContributorsAlberto S. Galindo, assistant professor of Spanish, Whitman CollegeAndrew Lakoff, associate professor of anthropology, communications, and sociology at the University ofSouthern CaliforniaChristian Moraru, professor of English at the University of North Carolina, GreensboroPaul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign RelationsPriscilla Wald, professor of English and women's studies at Duke UniversityGeoffrey Whitehall, associate professor of political science at Acadia University, Nova ScotiaMona Yacoubian, special adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of PeaceWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty. To get started finding Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 184

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0295991739

Description: Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial disaster becomes a framework for larger questions about the nature and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the hazards of sociability, the security of surveillance, and what a healthy security might mean. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself.Bruce Magnusson is associate professor of politics and the director of global studies and Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies, both at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.ContributorsAlberto S. Galindo, assistant professor of Spanish, Whitman CollegeAndrew Lakoff, associate professor of anthropology, communications, and sociology at the University ofSouthern CaliforniaChristian Moraru, professor of English at the University of North Carolina, GreensboroPaul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign RelationsPriscilla Wald, professor of English and women's studies at Duke UniversityGeoffrey Whitehall, associate professor of political science at Acadia University, Nova ScotiaMona Yacoubian, special adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of PeaceWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty. To get started finding Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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