Transforming Contagion
Subtitle: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Jul 05, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780813589596
Description: "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." --Publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations