Description
Book SynopsisUtilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
The Hydra of Contagion
Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua
1 Rethinking the War on Terror
New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World
Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian
2 Epidemic Intelligence
Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security
Andrew Lakoff
3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect
Geoffrey Whitehall
4 Bio Terror
Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our Monsters
Priscilla Wald
5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo’s
Post–Cold War World-System
Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture
Christian Moraru
6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels
Alberto S. Galindo
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
