Beschreibung:
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene1. Alimentary Anxieties: Affect in Food and Hunger2. Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj3. Imagining the Social Body: Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion4. Affective Remedies: Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene