The Body Politics of the United States and the World and Covid-19

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ID16529641
AuthorsShanon Fitzpatrick (0000-0002-8475-5499, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume45
Issue3
Pages498-509
Publication date2021-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiplomatic History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-2096 • E-ISSN: 1467-7709
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/dh/dhab020
OpenAlexW3174108993
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

In 2014, I, along with my co-editor Emily S. Rosenberg, published Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century, a collection that brought together theoretical scholarship on the body with archival research on U.S. international and transnational relations to analyze material and discursive connections between the body, the nation, and the world. One goal of this project was to highlight the embodied experiences, actions, and performances of diverse state and non-state actors who played important roles in shaping and mediating international and transnational relationships. Another was to examine the transnational and transactional dimensions of modern U.S. biopower in a period marked by "massive population flows, brutal wars, economic and media globalization, the ascendency of consumer cultures, and dramatic reconfigurations of personal and political identities." 1 Looking back, however, I really wish we had added the topic of disease, which threads throughout multiple essays of the volume, to the above list of contextualizing themes and events.

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Outbreak · Pathology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Medicine · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Virology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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