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Immunity and Community
Identity, Ethics, and Biopolitics
Immunity and Community
Identity, Ethics, and Biopolitics
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Description
This volume critically investigates the intersection of immunity and community, offering innovative perspectives on public policy and health, medical humanities, and ethics in the post-COVID-era.
Drawing on frameworks from medical humanities, biopolitics, and ethics, the multidisciplinary contributors interrogate how immunization protocols reflect and reshape societal dynamics-illuminating the ways power, vulnerability, and identity are negotiated in public health discourse. With chapters exploring topics such as migration, representation, global governance, and the logic of action, the book offers a compelling critique of immunitary regimes and their impact on the social body. Rich in theoretical insight and grounded in contemporary relevance, this work will be useful reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking to understand the cultural and political stakes of life preservation in a post-pandemic world.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Anouar Majid
Introduction by Bouchra Benlemlih and Mustapha Kharoua
Chapter 1: Techne or Politeia? Some Notes on Roberto Esposito's Hermeneutic of the Pandemic by Agostino Cera
Chapter 2: The Sociological Approach to Collective Behavior in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Critical Review to the Concept of the Logic of Action in French Sociological Literature by Sidi Mohamed Elhassani
Chapter 3: The Concept of Man in the West amid the Pandemic, a Hyper-Phenomenon in Nature or an Epiphenomenon to it? By Moulay Abdessadek Ahlbentaleb
Chapter 4: Denied Personhood: The Necropolitical Production of Disposability in Mediterranean Migration by Rachid Benharrousse
Chapter 5: Pandemics and Socio-economic Reforms: A Comparative-Historical Perspective on Infectious Diseases' Impact on Societies by Mohamed Belamghari and Sara Tabza
Chapter 6: Slovenian Crime Fiction in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Imaginary Immunities by Primož Mlacnik
Chapter 7: A Postscript in Verse: Seven Circles of Self by Hassan Mekouar
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | Jun 25 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9798216380481 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Never before has the immune system become so embedded in the community as in the recent COVID pandemic. This book analyzes the full ambivalence of this process, simultaneously medical, social, and political-the necessity, but also the risk, underlying immunization practices in a world riven by economic, ethnic, and environmental inequalities. Drawing on contemporary philosophical debate, it opens a powerful and original perspective on our world, bridging the languages of biology, law, and ethics.
Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore, IT.

























