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    Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary

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    Author(s)
    Lynteris, Christos
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the book argues that fear of and fascination with the ‘next pandemic’ stem not so much from an anticipation of a biological extinction of the human species, as from an expectation of the loss of mastery over human/non-humanl relations. Christos Lynteris employs the notion of the ‘pandemic imaginary’ in order to understand the way in which pandemic-borne human extinction refashions our understanding of humanity and its place in the world. The book challenges us to think how cosmological, aesthetic, ontological and political aspects of pandemic catastrophe are intertwined. The chapters examine the vital entanglement of epidemiological studies, popular culture, modes of scientific visualisation, and pandemic preparedness campaigns. This volume will be relevant for scholars and advanced students of anthropology as well as global health, and for many others interested in catastrophe, the ‘end of the world’ and the (post)apocalyptic.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102314
    Keywords
    MERS CoV; Genetic Drift Event; Animal Kingdom; MERS; CIA Agent; National Academy; Elana Gomel; States Army Medical Research Institute; United States Army Medical Research; Human Extinction; SARS Pandemic; Acute Respiratory Viral Infection; Epidemiological Reasoning; Zombie Virus; Military Scientific Complex; Amoy Gardens; Nonhuman Animals; CDC Office; Wet Markets; Civet Cat; Plague Pandemic; AMR
    DOI
    10.4324/9780429322051
    ISBN
    9781000698169, 9781000698886, 9780429322051, 9781000698527, 9780367338145, 9780367776886, 9781000698169
    OCN
    1110124897
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, 2019
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - [...]
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Series
    Routledge Studies in Anthropology,
    Classification
    Social and cultural anthropology
    Epidemiology and Medical statistics
    Social and political philosophy
    Human biology
    Anthropology
    Medical sociology
    Social theory
    Pages
    190
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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