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Informationen zum Autor Lynette J Chua, is Professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Jack Jin Gary Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, New York, USA Klappentext This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called "governing through contagion", the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. They examine how these governments used law and other technologies, including waste management, mask-wearing, quarantine stations, house inspections, and the burning of entire neighbourhoods, to achieve their aims of protecting populations and ensuring productivity. Although the studies recognise the power of the state, they simultaneously emphasise the active roles of technologies and creatures, drawing attention to the often-taken-for-granted workings of the non-human in public health governance. They also consider the implications of strategies of control on marginalised communities and democratic politics. Collectively, the studies in this book bring attention to the connections between COVID-19 responses by governments and their historical antecedents, shedding light on the role of capitalism, colonialism, and geopolitics in circulating contagions and the strategies used to control them. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Vorwort Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion", this book analyses how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. Zusammenfassung This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion”, the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. They examine how these governments used law and other technologies, including waste management, mask-wearing, quarantine stations, house inspections, and the burning of entire neighbourhoods, to achieve their aims of protecting populations and ensuring productivity. Although the studies recognise the power of the state, they simultaneously emphasise the active roles of technologies and creatures, drawing attention to the often-taken-for-granted workings of the non-human in public health governance. They also consider the implications of strategies of control on marginalised communities and democratic politics. Collectively, the studies in this book bring attention to the connections between COVID-19 responses by governments and their historical antecedents, shedding light on the role of capitalism, colonialism, and geopolitics in circulating contagions and the strategies used to control them. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Governing Through Contagion: Perspectives across Time and Space, Lynette J Chua (National University of Singapore) and Jack Jin Gary Lee (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, USA) Part One: Technologies of Governing Through Contagion 1. British Quarantine and Telegraph Stations in the Persian Gulf, 1864–1928: Governing Through Contagion, Entanglements and Enclaves, Sebastian James Rose (University of Greenwich, UK) 2. Wastewater Surveillance in Colonial and Present-Day Hong Kong: Governing Through Contagion from Below, Dhiraj Nainani (National University of Singapore) 3. Regulating Pandemic Wastes: Governing Through Contagion via Disc...
