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Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. His books for Routledge include Plague and the City (2018) and The Anthropology of Epidemics (2019).<p>"Lynteris’ book shows clear connections between available narratives to experience biological emergencies and the measures at hand to handle a pandemic. By showing the wide span of the pandemic imaginary, and the way it is adopted and used by many different actors in western society, the book opens the door to continue exploring the significance of the apparently superfluous and its impact on our experienced reality. But ultimately, the book is at its most inspiring in its depiction of humanity’s struggle to reinvent itself in relation to our environment. This is a struggle that we witness not only during pandemic times, but also more generally, as we face the environmental challenges resulting from the Anthropocene and its extractive relation to earth and nonhuman animals." <strong>--Jose A. Cañada, Postdoctoral Researcher Faculty of Social Sciences University of Helsinki</strong></p>
Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that global fascination with the ‘next pandemic’ stems not so much from anticipation of biological extinction of human species, as from expectation of loss of mastery over human-animal relations, as ontological pivot of humanity.
Introduction: the end of mastery
1.The end of the world as We Do Not Know It
2. Zoonotic transformations
3. Anthropogenesis reversed
4. The epidemiologist as culture hero
5. The post-pandemic condition
Conclusion: catastrophism beyond closure
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