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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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