Introduction : contagion as unruly subject / Breanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage -- "A proper contagion" : the inoculation narrative and the immunological turn / C.C Wharram -- Before the cell, there was virus : rethinking the concept of parasite and contagion -- Through contemporary research in evolutionary virology / Annu Dahiya -- Social (ir)responsibility : vaccine exemption and the ethics of immunity / Rachel Conrad Bracken -- "Radiophobia" and the politics of social contagion / Majia Nadesan -- Isn't contagion just a metaphor? Reading contagion in Daniel DeFoe's journal of the plague year / Annika Mann -- Contagious accumulation and racial capitalism in late nineteenth century American fiction / Justin Rogers-Cooper -- Performance and the contagious swirl of dramatic tradition : performative revision and subversion / Patrick Maley -- Viral murder : contagious killings and epidemic beliefs / Marlene Tromp -- Am i a psychopath? / Sadie Mohler -- Cult of the penis : male fragility and phallic frenzy / Michelle Ashley Gohr -- Fear of the diseased immigrant : contagion, xenophobia, and belonging / Louis Mendoza -- Prophylactic policing and the epidemiology of dissent in the Soviet-era Baltic states -- Edward Cohn -- Sexual politics and contagious social movements / Eric Swank -- Words on fire : radical pedagogies of the feminist manifesto / Breanne Fahs.
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." --Publisher description.
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