Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersecting Narratives of Planetary Thought and Pandemics, Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Section A: Pandemic Anxieties and Historical Genealogies of Planetary Health
1 "So Spreading and Penetrating a Disease": Margaret Cavendish's Imaginative Landscapes of Plague
Heather Meek
2 Lactination: Planetary Bodies and Their Fluid Encounters in the Early Vaccination Narrative
Anna E. MacDonald
3 Mobilizing Health between the Global and the Planetary: Apollo 11, Airstream, and NASA's Planetary Quarantine Program
Richard A. McKay
Section B: Reading Planetary Health Narratives: Epistemology, Theory, and Practice
4 Decolonial Epi-pathographies of Planetary Health: Tragedy, Policy, Art
Heike Härting
5 Little COVID-19, All Grown Up in the Planetary: Reconsidering Health Humanities Instrumentalism in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shane Neilson
6 Tiger Symmetries: Pandemic as Gift
Larissa Lai
7 Historicizing Planetary Health Policy: Health Work and Wages across Global and Planetary Health
Ramah McKay
Section C: Pandemic Ontologies, Body Politics, and a Planetary Health Commons
8 Contagious Bodies: A Pandemic of Racism
Yasmin Jiwani
9 #Zoombies: Cybernetic Trance in Pandemic Times
Samuele Collu
10 Planetary Health (In)humanities: Disordering the Colony Collapse
Olivia Banner and Kathryn Whitlock
11 Narrating the Uncanny Triad: Imagining Microbe, Animal, and Human Entanglements within the Planetary Health Humanities
Leonie Bossert and Davina Höll
12 Entangled Humanism and Impersonal Circuits of Imperial Power: An Interview with William Connolly
Heike Härting and Heather Meek
Index