Journal article
Fears of Contagion and Militarized Responses to Disaster After 9/11
Peace review (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vol.31(1), pp.91-99
01/02/2019
Abstract
Although we are not certain that colonial boundaries were not effectively able to deploy (perhaps for the metropolis, but never for the colonies), we still find value in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's claim that one can rent the historical moment--an "age of globalization"--is also an "age of universal contagion." We might slightly tailor their claim to specify perceived universal contagion, since perceptions motivate ideas about what human beings find threatning and introduce concerns about the end of the world as we know it, or what Robert Wuthnow calls, "the possibility of human extinction." In the following, we offer that, first, perceptions about pandemics are as meaningful as the realities surrounding them, and second, since September 11, 2001, military efforts have been central to the management of pandemics or perceived universal contagions.
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- Title
- Fears of Contagion and Militarized Responses to Disaster After 9/11
- Creators
- Mary K Bloodsworth-Lugo - Washington State University, Languages, Cultures, and Race, School ofCarmen R Lugo-Lugo - Washington State University, Languages, Cultures, and Race, School of
- Publication Details
- Peace review (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vol.31(1), pp.91-99
- Academic Unit
- Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 99900662037301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article