Transforming Contagion
Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
By Annika Mann, Annu Dahiya, Breanne Fahs, C.C. Wharram, Edward Cohn, Eric Swank, Justin Rogers-Cooper, Louis Mendoza, Majia Nadesan, Marlene Tromp, Michelle Ashley Gohr, Patrick Maley, Rachel Conrad Bracken, Sadie Mohler, Sarah Stage | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
About the book
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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 contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine, define, or even exacerbate various contagions.
Editions of Transforming Contagion
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780813589596
- EBook
- ISBN 9780813589602
- PDF
- ISBN 9780813589626
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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 contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine, define, or even exacerbate various contagions.
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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 contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine, define, or even exacerbate various contagions.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Transforming Contagion?
Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social and ethical issues > Health, illness or addiction: social aspects
Where can I read a sample of Transforming Contagion?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780813589596
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Transforming Contagion?
Annika Mann, Annu Dahiya, Breanne Fahs, C.C. Wharram, Edward Cohn, Eric Swank, Justin Rogers-Cooper, Louis Mendoza, Majia Nadesan, Marlene Tromp, Michelle Ashley Gohr, Patrick Maley, Rachel Conrad Bracken, Sadie Mohler, Sarah Stage
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Transforming Contagion is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780813589596) and ebook(ISBN 9780813589602) and pdf(ISBN 9780813589626)
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