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Pandemic as method
Date: 2019-10-01
Creator: Belinda Kong
Access: Open access
- This essay deploys the concept of pandemic as a set of discursive relations rather than a neutral description of a natural phenomenon, arguing that pandemic discourse is a product of layered histories of power that in turn reproduces myriad forms of imperial and racial power in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection and biosecurity as frontiers of bioterrorism and the diseased other. A contemporary example of this bioorientalism can be seen around the 2003 SARS epidemic, in which global discourses projected the source of contagion onto Asia and Asians. Pandemic as method can thus serve as a theoretical pathway for examining cultural concatenations of orientalism and biopower.
"Unexpected Gifts: Life With MS During a Pandemic" by Nora Pierson (Class of 2000)
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Nora Pierson
Access: Open access
- How having Multiple Sclerosis has prepared me for life in the time of Covid-19. The author is an alumna from the class of 2000.