The Viral Politics of Covid-19

This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political levels. The biolegal dimensions of our evolving understanding of home are analysed as the common thread linking the problem of zoonotic diseases and planetary health with that of geopolitics, biosecurity, bioeconomics and biophilosophies of the plant-animal-human interface. In doing so, the contributions collectively highlight the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for humanity, opening new perspectives on how to inhabit our shared planet. This volume will broadly appeal to scholars and students in anthropology, cultural and media studies, history, philosophy, political science and public health, sociology and science and technology studies.

Examines how the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the emergence of a new politics of the home and nature Offers cutting-edge contributions from an international team of established and emerging and established scholars Brings a unique approach intersecting the fields of sociology, geography, biopolitics, animal studies and posthumanities

Autorentext

Vanessa Lemm (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the Research Group: Body, Language and Politics (CLEPO), Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid.

Miguel Vatter is Professor of Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia.

Inhalt
Introduction.- I Biosecurity and Planetary Health.- 1 Frédéric Keck.- 2 Lyle Fearnley.- 3 Susan Craddock.- II Bio-Social Dimensions of Public Health.- 1 Maurizio Meloni.- 2 Abigail Nieves Delgado and Azita Chellappoo.- 3 Eben Kirksey.- III Social Distancing and Community.- 1 Gay Hawkins.- 2 Yasmeen Arif.- 3 Vanessa Lemm.- IV Pandemic Neoliberalism.- 1 Martijn Konings.- 2 Federico Luisetti.- V Pandemic Habitats.- 1 Mark Andrejevic and Zala Volcic.- 2 Miguel Vatter.- 3 Stephen Muecke.