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

Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Epidemics and Othering

The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by: Heike Steinhoff

Volume 14 in the series Global- und Kolonialgeschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839465059

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Heike Steinhoff is Junior Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research focuses on American media culture from the 19^th to the 21^st 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 19^th century America, gender in children's movies, filmic representations of metropolitan masculinities, and the interrelations of body positivity, self-help literature and popular feminisms.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
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1. Biopolitics, Othering, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Introduction Heike Steinhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Pandemics, Biopolitics and Coloniality: From Chronicles of the Indies to COVID-19 Fictions Romana Radlwimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. ‘Enlightened’ Colonialism, Smallpox, and the Indigenous Other in Late Eighteenth-Century Mexico and Guatemala Martin Gabriel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. ‘Civilizing the Natives’ with Modern Medicine: Strategies of Othering in the Implementation of Public Hygiene in Japan-Ruled Taiwan (1895–1945) Anke Scherer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Fear of Contagion: Epistemology of Boundaries and Politics of Emotions in (Post)Colonial Development Discourses Claudia Jahnel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. The Other as Conspirator: Historical Roots of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Martin Tschiggerl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. The Quest for Tropical Nature: Utopia and Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic Danielle Heberle Viegas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. Pandemic Play? Digital Sports Gaming, Fatness, and Contemporary Pandemic Imaginaries Martin Lüthe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
9. The Virus Is Present, Presence Is Virulent: Being Co(m)present with Others in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Julia Eckel and Elisa Linseisen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
10. The Necropolitics of Breathing: On the Scream as Resistance in Contemporary Sound Performances Natalie Pielok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11. Re-Negotiating Discourses on AIDS during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion Simon Dickel, Roselyne Masamha, Lennon Mhishi, Florian Zitzelsberger and Heike Steinhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 246
Keywords: Othering; Biopolitics; Covid-19; Pandemic; Cultural History; Medicine; Global History; History of Colonialism; History

eBook

Published: November 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839465059