The Biopolitics of Pandemics: Interview with Ed Cohen

Written By Elizabeth Davis

Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, in “The Biopolitics of Pandemics,” Ed Cohen discusses the contradictions in medical, juridical, and popular thought that conceive of both disease and immunity as things that happen to individual bodies, belying our profound interconnectedness and interdependence.

This interview originally took place in August 2020. It is part of a Special Section of Cultural Studies, Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the Crises of 2020.

Cohen, Ed, Megan Boler, and Elizabeth Davis. 2022. “The Biopolitics of Pandemics: Interview with Ed Cohen.” Cultural Studies 36 (3): 396–409. doi:10.1080/09502386.2022.2041682.

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