Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersecting Narratives of Planetary Thought and Pandemics, Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Section A: Pandemic Anxieties and Historical Genealogies of Planetary Health
1 “So Spreading and Penetrating a Disease”: Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginative Landscapes of Plague
Heather Meek
2 Lactination: Planetary Bodies and Their Fluid Encounters in the Early Vaccination Narrative
Anna E. MacDonald
3 Mobilizing Health between the Global and the Planetary: Apollo 11, Airstream, and NASA’s Planetary Quarantine Program
Richard A. McKay
Section B: Reading Planetary Health Narratives: Epistemology, Theory, and Practice
4 Decolonial Epi-pathographies of Planetary Health: Tragedy, Policy, Art
Heike Härting
5 Little COVID-19, All Grown Up in the Planetary: Reconsidering Health Humanities Instrumentalism in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shane Neilson
6 Tiger Symmetries: Pandemic as Gift
Larissa Lai
7 Historicizing Planetary Health Policy: Health Work and Wages across Global and Planetary Health
Ramah McKay
Section C: Pandemic Ontologies, Body Politics, and a Planetary Health Commons
8 Contagious Bodies: A Pandemic of Racism
Yasmin Jiwani
9 #Zoombies: Cybernetic Trance in Pandemic Times
Samuele Collu
10 Planetary Health (In)humanities: Disordering the Colony Collapse
Olivia Banner and Kathryn Whitlock
11 Narrating the Uncanny Triad: Imagining Microbe, Animal, and Human Entanglements within the Planetary Health Humanities
Leonie Bossert and Davina Höll
12 Entangled Humanism and Impersonal Circuits of Imperial Power: An Interview with William Connolly
Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Heike Härting is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada.
Heather Meek is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada.

Zusammenfassung

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Heike Meek Harting
• Mitarbeit: Heike Härting (Herausgeber), Heather Meek (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032431635
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243163-5
• Seiten: 288
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Cultural Studies, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Personal & public health, History of Medicine, Social impact of disasters, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Solar system: the Sun & planets, Medical Sociology, Solar system: the Sun and planets, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Personal and public health / health education, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)