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    Transforming Contagion
    Risky Contacts Among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations

    Breanne Fahs (Edited by), Annika Mann (Edited by), Eric Swank (Edited by), Sarah Stage (Edited by), Edward Cohn (Contributions by), Rachel Conrad Bracken (Contributions by), Annu Dahiya (Contributions by), Michelle Ashley Gohr (Contributions by), Patrick Maley (Contributions by), Annika Mann (Contributions by), Louis Mendoza (Contributions by), Sadie Mohler (Contributions by), Majia Nadesan (Contributions by), Justin Rogers-Cooper (Contributions by), Marlene Tromp (Contributions by), C.C. Wharram (Contributions by)

    9780813589589

    Paperback / softback, published 5 July 2018

    258 pages, 14 b-w figures
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.367 kg

    “This is an extraordinary book that radically rethinks and expands our understanding of contagion. Crossing historical, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, Transforming Contagion brings a feminist, queer and new materialist perspective that insists on the possibilities as well as the risks and anxieties of contagion.”
     
    - Rosalind Gill (author of New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity)

    “Traversing the humanities and social sciences, the essays in Transforming Contagion offer a fertile prism for exploring how contagion--the spread of beliefs, emotions, texts, practices, people, and pathogens across communities and culture--has been represented, experienced, addressed, and theorized across disciplines and historical periods. This volume establishes contagion as a central keyword for studying not only biomedical but also cultural, psychological, and political forms of connection, communication, and collective action.” 

    - David Zimmerman (author of Panic!: Markets,Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction) (Chronicle of Higher Education)
    "This edited collection of essays examines the forms, meanings, and processes of contagion across modes and sites of transmission, historical periods, and methods of scholarly analysis. This broadly referenced text is an excellent example of scholarship in the critical humanities and social science disciplines. Highly recommended."
    (Choice)

    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.  
     

    Contents

    Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject
    Breanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage

    Part I –
    Quarantine/Exposure
    1. “
      A Proper Contagion”
      : The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn
    C.C Wharram
    1. Before the Cell, There Was Virus: Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion Through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology
    Annu Dahiya
    1. Social (Ir)Responsibility: Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity
    Rachel Conrad Bracken
    1. “
      Radiophobia”
      and the Politics of Social Contagion
    Majia Nadesan

    Part II –
    Flesh/Spirit
    1. Isn’
      t Contagion Just a Metaphor?Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’
      s Journal of the Plague Year
    Annika Mann
    1. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction
    Justin Rogers - Cooper
    1. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition: Performative Revision and Subversion
    Patrick Maley

    Part III –
    Madness/Reason
    1. Viral Murder: Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs
    Marlene Tromp
    1. Am I a Psychopath?
    Sadie Mohler
    1. Cult of the Penis: Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy
    Michelle Ashley Gohr

    Part IV –
    Revolution/Bureaucracy
    1. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant: Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging
    Louis Mendoza
    1. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the Soviet-Era Baltic States
    Edward Cohn
    1. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements
    Eric Swank
    1. Words on Fire: Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto
    Breanne Fahs

    Index
    Acknowledgments
    About the Contributors
     
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