The Cultural Politics of COVID-19 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Erni, John Nguyet; Striphas, Ted

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a snapshot of critical responses by researchers from 10 countries and 4 continents, in a collective effort to explore how Cultural Studies can contribute to our struggle to persevere in a "no normal" horizon, with no clear end in sight.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000653502
• Artikelnr.: 64193358

Autorenporträt

John Nguyet Erni is Dean of Humanities and Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was Fung Hon Chu Endowed Chair of Humanics at Hong Kong Baptist University. His most recent book is Law and Cultural Studies: A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights. Ted Striphas, Coeditor of the journal Cultural Studies, is Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. He is author of The Late Age of Print and of the upcoming monograph Algorithmic Culture. Twitter: @striphas

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: COVID-19
the multiplier
Racializations
2. COVID-19 and the mundane practices of privilege
3. Following the science? COVID-19
'race' and the politics of knowing
4. 'Give me liberty or give me COVID!': Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency
5. Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic
6. Asian Americans as racial contagion
7. COVID-19 and 'crisis as ordinary': pathological whiteness
popular pessimism
and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies
8. COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia
9. The long and deadly road: the COVID pandemic and Indian migrants
Media
Data
and Fragments of the Popular
10. New normals
from talk to gesture
11. Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era
12. Virus government - A twenty-first-century genealogy of the 'dusk mask' as biopolitical technology
13. Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19
14. Predicting COVID-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism
15. Learning from Lana: Netflix's Too Hot to Handle
COVID-19
and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture
16. COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management
17. Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs
creativity and lockdown
18. Fashion in 'crisis': consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown
19. Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time
20. No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic
Un/knowing the Pandemic
21. Enduring COVID-19
nevertheless
22. The dead-end of ad-hocracy
23. The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world
24. The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths
25. Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture
26. Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19
global imaginaries
and self-serving cosmopolitanism
27. Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia
28. Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple
29. COVID-19 at sea: 'the world as you know it no longer exists'
30. Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic
31. Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?