{"product_id":"transforming-contagion-risky-contacts-among-bodies-disciplines-and-nations-paperback-softback-9780813589589","title":"Transforming Contagion; Risky Contacts Among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813589589","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransforming Contagion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRisky Contacts Among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBreanne 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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813589589\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 14 b-w figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This is an extraordinary book that radically rethinks and expands our understanding of contagion. Crossing historical, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, \u003ci\u003eTransforming Contagion \u003c\/i\u003ebrings a feminist, queer and new materialist perspective that insists on the possibilities as well as the risks and anxieties of contagion.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Rosalind Gill (author of New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Traversing the humanities and social sciences, the essays in \u003ci\u003eTransforming Contagion\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003econtagion\u003c\/i\u003e as a central keyword for studying not only biomedical but also cultural, psychological, and political forms of connection, communication, and collective action.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e - David Zimmerman (author of Panic!: Markets,Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-August-31\/244356\"' id='\"LPlnk852649\"' title='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-August-31\/244356Cmd+Click' or tap to follow the link\u003e\"Chronicle of Higher Education 'New Scholarly Books' Weekly Book List, August 31, 2018,\" compiled by Nina C. Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e2019 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, \u003ci\u003eTransforming Contagion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I –\u003cbr\u003e Quarantine\/Exposure \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eA Proper Contagion”\u003cbr\u003e: The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eC.C Wharram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eBefore the Cell, There Was Virus: Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion Through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAnnu Dahiya\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eSocial (Ir)Responsibility: Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRachel Conrad Bracken \u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eRadiophobia”\u003cbr\u003e and the Politics of Social Contagion\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMajia Nadesan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II –\u003cbr\u003e Flesh\/Spirit \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eIsn’\u003cbr\u003et Contagion Just a Metaphor?Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Plague Year\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAnnika Mann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eContagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eJustin Rogers - Cooper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003ePerformance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition: Performative Revision and Subversion\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePatrick Maley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III –\u003cbr\u003e Madness\/Reason \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eViral Murder: Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMarlene Tromp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAm I a Psychopath?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSadie Mohler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eCult of the Penis: Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMichelle Ashley Gohr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV –\u003cbr\u003e Revolution\/Bureaucracy \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFear of the Diseased Immigrant: Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLouis Mendoza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eProphylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the Soviet-Era Baltic States\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEdward Cohn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eSexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEric Swank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWords on Fire: Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBreanne Fahs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563715490072,"sku":"9780813589589","price":26.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transforming-contagion-risky-contacts-among-bodies-disciplines-and-nations-paperback-softback-9780813589589","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}