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    Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares by Aaltola, Mika;

    An Introduction to Global Politosomatics

    Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 14 October 2024

    • ISBN 9781032927121
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages216 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • 604

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    Short description:

    Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares. By evaluating anxiety and

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    Long description:

    Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares.

    By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect its citizens from infectious disease, Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares examines the connection between international health governance and the emerging Western liberal world order. The case studies, including SARS, Bird Flu and Swine Flu, provide an understanding of how the world order, global health governance and people’s bodies interact to produce scares and panics. Aaltola introduces an innovative new concept of ‘politosomatics’ based on the relationship that links individual stress, strain, and fear with global circulations of power to evaluate increasingly global bio-political environments in which pandemics exist.

    This book will be of interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Global Health, International Public Health and Global Health governance.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Introduction  2. Containments and Compassions of Pandemic Dramas  3. Understanding the Vortex of War and Disease  4. Trajectory of a Pandemic Drama: Ebbing and Waning of the BSE Crisis in 1996  5. Vortexes of SARS: Anxieties over Global Air Mobility  6. The Pandemic Geography of Avian Flu  7. Beyond Global Public Health

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