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Transforming Contagion : Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations / ed. by Breanne Fahs, Sarah Stage, Eric Swank, Annika Mann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (258 p.) : 14 b-w figuresContent type:
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  • 9780813589626
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  • RA643 .T73 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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