Description: Epidemic Orientalism : Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease, Paperback by White, Alexandre I. R., ISBN 1503634124, ISBN-13 9781503634121, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, who organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focusedglobal health initiatives, their mission -- to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic" -- has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism, and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control"--
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Book Title: Epidemic Orientalism : Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infec
Number of Pages: 322 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Epidemic Orientalism : Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Public Health, Sociology / General, Disease & Health Issues, World
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical, History
Author: Alexandre I. R. White
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
