
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares
An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
Mika Aaltola(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-032-92712-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-92712-1 (9781032927121)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
01/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download

E-Book
01/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download

Book
07/2011
1st Edition
Routledge
€141.12
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Mika Aaltola is Academy Fellow, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland.
Content
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