eprintid: 10182145 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/21/45 datestamp: 2023-11-27 12:30:48 lastmod: 2023-11-27 12:30:48 status_changed: 2023-11-27 12:30:48 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182145/1/choksey-2022-epidemiological-plots-and-the-national-syndrome.pdf