Immunity and Community
Identity, Ethics, and Biopolitics
Published on 25. June 2025
Book
Hardback
168 pages
979-8-216-38044-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume critically investigates the intersection of immunity and community, offering innovative perspectives on public policy and health, medical humanities, and ethics in the post-COVID era.
Drawing on frameworks from medical humanities, biopolitics, and ethics, the multidisciplinary contributors interrogate how immunization protocols reflect and reshape societal dynamics-illuminating the ways power, vulnerability, and identity are negotiated in public health discourse. With chapters exploring topics such as migration, representation, global governance, and the logic of action, the book offers a compelling critique of immunitary regimes and their impact on the social body. Rich in theoretical insight and grounded in contemporary relevance, this work will be useful reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking to understand the cultural and political stakes of life preservation in a post-pandemic world.
Drawing on frameworks from medical humanities, biopolitics, and ethics, the multidisciplinary contributors interrogate how immunization protocols reflect and reshape societal dynamics-illuminating the ways power, vulnerability, and identity are negotiated in public health discourse. With chapters exploring topics such as migration, representation, global governance, and the logic of action, the book offers a compelling critique of immunitary regimes and their impact on the social body. Rich in theoretical insight and grounded in contemporary relevance, this work will be useful reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking to understand the cultural and political stakes of life preservation in a post-pandemic world.
Reviews / Votes
Never before has the immune system become so embedded in the community as in the recent COVID pandemic. This book analyzes the full ambivalence of this process, simultaneously medical, social, and political-the necessity, but also the risk, underlying immunization practices in a world riven by economic, ethnic, and environmental inequalities. Drawing on contemporary philosophical debate, it opens a powerful and original perspective on our world, bridging the languages of biology, law, and ethics. * Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore, IT. *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-216-38044-3 (9798216380443)
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Bouchra Benlemlih | Mustapha Kharoua | Mohamed Belamghari
Immunity and Community
Identity, Ethics, and Biopolitics
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€90.99
Available for download
Bouchra Benlemlih | Mustapha Kharoua | Mohamed Belamghari
Immunity and Community
Identity, Ethics, and Biopolitics
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€90.99
Available for download
Persons
Bouchra Benlemlih is Professor of English and Postcolonial studies at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
Mustapha Kharoua is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Humanities, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.
Mohamed Belamghari is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.
Mustapha Kharoua is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Humanities, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.
Mohamed Belamghari is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.
Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Anouar Majid
Introduction by Bouchra Benlemlih and Mustapha Kharoua
Chapter 1: Techne or Politeia? Some Notes on Roberto Esposito's Hermeneutic of the Pandemic by Agostino Cera
Chapter 2: The Sociological Approach to Collective Behavior in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Critical Review to the Concept of the Logic of Action in French Sociological Literature by Sidi Mohamed Elhassani
Chapter 3: The Concept of Man in the West amid the Pandemic, a Hyper-Phenomenon in Nature or an Epiphenomenon to it? By Moulay Abdessadek Ahlbentaleb
Chapter 4: Denied Personhood: The Necropolitical Production of Disposability in Mediterranean Migration by Rachid Benharrousse
Chapter 5: Pandemics and Socio-economic Reforms: A Comparative-Historical Perspective on Infectious Diseases' Impact on Societies by Mohamed Belamghari and Sara Tabza
Chapter 6: Slovenian Crime Fiction in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Imaginary Immunities by Primoz Mlacnik
Chapter 7: A Postscript in Verse: Seven Circles of Self by Hassan Mekouar
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Foreword by Anouar Majid
Introduction by Bouchra Benlemlih and Mustapha Kharoua
Chapter 1: Techne or Politeia? Some Notes on Roberto Esposito's Hermeneutic of the Pandemic by Agostino Cera
Chapter 2: The Sociological Approach to Collective Behavior in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Critical Review to the Concept of the Logic of Action in French Sociological Literature by Sidi Mohamed Elhassani
Chapter 3: The Concept of Man in the West amid the Pandemic, a Hyper-Phenomenon in Nature or an Epiphenomenon to it? By Moulay Abdessadek Ahlbentaleb
Chapter 4: Denied Personhood: The Necropolitical Production of Disposability in Mediterranean Migration by Rachid Benharrousse
Chapter 5: Pandemics and Socio-economic Reforms: A Comparative-Historical Perspective on Infectious Diseases' Impact on Societies by Mohamed Belamghari and Sara Tabza
Chapter 6: Slovenian Crime Fiction in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Imaginary Immunities by Primoz Mlacnik
Chapter 7: A Postscript in Verse: Seven Circles of Self by Hassan Mekouar
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors