January 30: LeipzigLab AG Global Health
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar
Laura-Elena Keck, Phillip Willians Leite, and Paul Skäbe (LeipzigLab AG Global Health):
*PANDEMIC SPACE: UNDERSTANDING QUARANTINE AND RESPONSIBILIZATION IN TIMES OF CORONA*
January 30, 14:00-16:00
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
Zoom link: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/68670222686?pwd=TmRhN2RUVk84ZXdhaUhKc2VvSjVEdz09
Quarantine and responsibilization have been closely interrelated key features in the management of infectious diseases throughout the 20th century. We investigate the multifaceted dimensions of these phenomena from a transregional and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing especially on the intersections of space and race. Pandemics are inherently spatial phenomena: On a macro level, the spread of a virus is both enabled and inhibited by the particular spaces it traverses through. The same holds true when we zoom in: Measures enacted to stop the spread of a virus often regulate individual movement within space, while at the same time relying on appeals to modern subjects to act as agents for their own and the public’s health. Taking the sociocultural conditions of pandemics into account, our research project explores the implications of quarantine and responsibilization in the context of racialized segregation, a profoundly spatial regime of separation based on the discursive construction of difference. In our talk, we will elaborate on the central methodological and theoretical tenets of our project. We will also introduce the three subprojects, which focus on specific events – the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, and their particular contexts of racialized segregation – as well as on the production and circulation of quarantine knowledge in transregional and global networks of experts and institutions more broadly. Approaching these questions as deeply connected issues is central to a better understanding of global health beyond established narratives.
January 30: LeipzigLab AG Global Health
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar
Laura-Elena Keck, Phillip Willians Leite, and Paul Skäbe (LeipzigLab AG Global Health):
*PANDEMIC SPACE: UNDERSTANDING QUARANTINE AND RESPONSIBILIZATION IN TIMES OF CORONA*
January 30, 14:00-16:00
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
Zoom link: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/68670222686?pwd=TmRhN2RUVk84ZXdhaUhKc2VvSjVEdz09
Quarantine and responsibilization have been closely interrelated key features in the management of infectious diseases throughout the 20th century. We investigate the multifaceted dimensions of these phenomena from a transregional and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing especially on the intersections of space and race. Pandemics are inherently spatial phenomena: On a macro level, the spread of a virus is both enabled and inhibited by the particular spaces it traverses through. The same holds true when we zoom in: Measures enacted to stop the spread of a virus often regulate individual movement within space, while at the same time relying on appeals to modern subjects to act as agents for their own and the public’s health. Taking the sociocultural conditions of pandemics into account, our research project explores the implications of quarantine and responsibilization in the context of racialized segregation, a profoundly spatial regime of separation based on the discursive construction of difference. In our talk, we will elaborate on the central methodological and theoretical tenets of our project. We will also introduce the three subprojects, which focus on specific events – the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, and their particular contexts of racialized segregation – as well as on the production and circulation of quarantine knowledge in transregional and global networks of experts and institutions more broadly. Approaching these questions as deeply connected issues is central to a better understanding of global health beyond established narratives.
