Contagion Image close
Contagion on Hardback
Contagion on Hardback
Show Hide Adult Content
Contagion close

Non-Fiction Books:

Home  
Books  
Non-Fiction  
Reference  
General Studies  
Globalization

Contagion

Health, Fear, Sovereignty
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

Format:

Hardback
$303.00
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
0 in Trolley
Free Delivery with Primate
Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $75.75 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $50.50 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 11-21 June using International Courier

Explore more Global Re-Visions

See all products in this series

Spectacle
$100.00
Spectacle
Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Contagion
$98.00
Contagion
Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Torture on Hardback
$288.00
Torture
Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

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.

Author Biography:

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. Contributors Alberto S. Galindo, assistant professor of Spanish, Whitman College Andrew Lakoff, associate professor of anthropology, communications, and sociology at the University of Southern California Christian Moraru, professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations Priscilla Wald, professor of English and women's studies at Duke University Geoffrey Whitehall, associate professor of political science at Acadia University, Nova Scotia Mona Yacoubian, special adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace
Release date NZ
September 1st, 2012
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Bruce Magnusson
  • Edited by Zahi Zalloua
Pages
212
Dimensions
152x229x16
ISBN-13
9780295991740
Product ID
19498988

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Recommended for you

Recommended from your browsing history

Help & options

Filed under...

Books >
Non-Fiction >
Reference >
General Studies >
Globalization
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Reference >
General Studies >
Cultural studies
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Social Sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social issues >
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Professional & Technical >
Medicine >
Clinical & internal medicine >
Diseases & disorders >
Infectious & contagious diseases
Books >
Health, Mind & Body >
Coping with Personal Problems >
Coping with illness