Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease : Technocratic Mimetism (Paperback)

List of figures
List of contributors
Preface

1. Introduction: liminal politics in the new age of disease: Technocratic mimetism
   
2. Liminality and modernity in sickness and in health
3. Rulers of liminality: on imbecility, or contemporary modes of gaining and operating power
4. ‘The most despotic of all regimes’: Covid-19 and the political anthropology of expertise
5. Pandemonium: authority and obedience under lockdown
6. ‘No human’s land’: comparing war rhetoric and collective sacrifice in the Great War with the pandemic
   
7. Corruption and the firefighter effect: on the commodification of liminal professions
8. Sovereign power and the politics of the pandemic as elementary parasitic social relation
9. Trickster parasite: about the snake pit of oozing disease

Conclusion

Index