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Epidemics and Othering

The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Heike Steinhoff

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English
Transcript Verlag
23 April 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Discussing othering dynamics in the contexts of post-/colonialism, conspiracy theories, and different discourses of media and health, contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regards to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond.

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Imprint:   Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 23mm,  Width: 15mm, 
Weight:   318g
ISBN:   9783837665055
ISBN 10:   3837665054
Pages:   246
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Heike Steinhoff is Junior Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum. Her research focuses on American media culture from the 19th to the 21st century, gender studies, body studies, and urban studies. She is the author of two monographs, one on makeovers and monstrosities in American culture and the other one on pirates in Hollywood cinema. She has also published on hipster culture, literary discourses of urban sexuality in 19th century America, gender in children's movies, filmic representations of metropolitan masculinities, and the interrelations of body positivity, self-help literature and popular feminisms.

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