Abstract
When pathogens and their movement between people cannot be seen, we imagine them. That imagined menagerie—imaginerie—of infection then becomes associated with marginal others whose bodies and actions become popularly conflated with disease and its transmission. This essay explores how methods of imagining and managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia echoed historical scripts for policing borders and containing the bodies of outsiders deemed threats to the national body.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 350-359 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Cultural Anthropology |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- COVID‐19
- containment
- infectious disease
- monsters
- policing
- proximity