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Over many ages, "contagion" is a metaphor of preference for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, real human rights, junk food, overweight, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays analyze the vocabulary of epidemiology used in the warfare on terror, the repressive ramifications of global disease security, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context. Fear of microbial catastrophe becomes a construction for much larger questions about the type and location of sovereignty and the related questions of contact and hygienic isolation, fear and invisibility, the risks of sociability, the security of security, and just what a healthy security might suggest. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary methodology of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself. Bruce Magnusson is associate professor of politics and the director of global studies and Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of People from france and standard studies, both at Whitman College or university in Walla Walla, Washington. Contributors: Alberto S. Galindo, associate professor of Spanish, Whitman College or university Andrew Lakoff, associate professor of anthropology, marketing communications, and sociology at the University or college of Southern California Christian Moraru, professor of British at the University or college of North Carolina, Greensboro Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Issue Elimination and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relationships Priscilla Wald, professor of British and women's studies at Duke University or college Geoffrey Whitehall, associate professor of political technology at Acadia University or college, Nova Scotia Mona Yacoubian, special adviser to the Center for Conflict Research and Elimination at the U.S. Institute of Peace
