Ecologies of Disease Control

Carolin Mezes (Editor) Carolin Mezes is a postdoctoral fellow at Bielefeld University.Sven Opitz (Editor) Sven Opitz is professor of political sociology at Philipps University Marburg.Andrea Wiegeshoff (Editor) Andrea Wiegeshoff is an affiliated researcher in the Department of Modern History at the University of Marburg and an adjunct lecturer at the universities of St. Gallen and Bonn.

A rich set of essays through which disease histories are ‘ecologized’ for a new generation. Long gone is single and simple causation. Rather, the authors here explore centuries of hosts, zones, routes, mutations, herds, webs, and entanglements. The fresh embedding of ‘ecologies’ and ‘environmentality’ in histories of disease is one the few positive outcomes of COVID-19.