Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of COVID-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics Aaltola Mika
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of COVID-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics Aaltola Mika This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the…
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Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of COVID-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics Aaltola Mika
This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order.It argues that contagious diseases should be regarded as complex open-ended phenomena with various features and are not reducible merely to biology and epidemiology. The author further argues that pandemics have somatic effects in political expressions that transform the epidemic They are, as such, fundamentally politosomatic, namely that they disrupt, agitate, and trigger large-scale processes because individual somatic-level anxieties stem from individuals' sensing immediate danger through the networks of their local and global connectedness.