eprintid: 10182145
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datestamp: 2023-11-27 12:30:48
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creators_name: Choksey, Lara
title: Epidemiological plots and the national syndrome
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F10
keywords: crisis management, epidemiology, judgement, nationalism, postcolonial justice
note: © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lficense (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: When mass demonstrations against state-sanctioned violence ‘play dead’, they deliver collective judgements on the failure of justice. In this article, I discuss the epidemiological plot, a crisis genre motivated by the idea that the state can be cured through its own processes. This plot is preoccupied with defending the state against viral invasion, moral and medical, and by coercing consensus around what and whom can be included within it. I expand on this in a reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), where a medical-sociological consortium forms to annihilate a foreign threat to national health: vampirism. I suggest that Dracula’s exhaustion of its compliant reader through its proliferation of data offers an analogy for a normative and mainstream socio-scientific literacy that serves, increasingly, as a condition for full participation in public life. I move from this to consider entanglements with the time of judgement in Ashon Crawley’s The Lonely Letters (2020), arguing that these circumvent the progressive historicism of national timekeeping.
date: 2022-03
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221084430
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2112087
doi: 10.1177/00380261221084430
lyricists_name: Choksey, Lara
lyricists_id: LECHO79
actors_name: Choksey, Lara
actors_id: LECHO79
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: The Sociological Review
volume: 70
number: 2
pagerange: 281-295
citation:        Choksey, Lara;      (2022)    Epidemiological plots and the national syndrome.                   The Sociological Review , 70  (2)   pp. 281-295.    10.1177/00380261221084430 <https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221084430>.       Green open access   
 
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