Introduction: Quagmire, Quarantine, Query
1. Global Crisis: Anthropocene, Animal, Antibody
2. The Foreign Virus: Panic, Propaganda, Prison
3. Flatten the Curve: Control, Capitalism, Community
4. Physical Distancing: Removal, Racism, Refugee
5. Frontline Labor: Service, Solidarity, Socialism
6. Coronapocalypse: Monster, Mystic, Machine
Epilogue: Pandemic, Planet, Pedagogy
Biography
Long T. Bui is Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His research explores digital media and popular culture, global Asias, Asian American studies, cultural geography, critical education studies, critical refugee studies, history and memory, race, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (2018) and Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton (2021).
"A remarkable contribution to the growing field of pandemic studies, Viral World tracks forms of relations constitutive of COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Viral worlding’ is the conceptual frame that illuminates interlaced relationalities, in a book that bridges international politics, theories of global society, and interdisciplinary studies of media."
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English and Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (2023)
"Rather than present a linear narrative of the pandemic or case studies cropped around national borders, Long T. Bui’s Viral World performs the looping disjointed sense of time emblematic of this crisis. The book ambitiously traverses the world and jumps scales like the coronavirus itself. It is a daring holistic effort that aims to capture the multiple dimensions of COVID-19."
Li Zhang, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Amherst College, USA, and author of The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism (2021)
