Immunity and Community

This volume critically investigates the intersection of immunity and community, offering innovative perspectives on public policy and health, medical humanities, and ethics in the post-COVID era. Drawing on frameworks from medical humanities, biopolitics, and ethics, the multidisciplinary contributors interrogate how immunization protocols reflect and reshape societal dynamics-illuminating the ways power, vulnerability, and identity are negotiated in public health discourse. With chapters exploring topics such as migration, representation, global governance, and the logic of action, the book offers a compelling critique of immunitary regimes and their impact on the social body. Rich in theoretical insight and grounded in contemporary relevance, this work will be useful reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking to understand the cultural and political stakes of life preservation in a post-pandemic world.

Bouchra Benlemlih is Professor of English and Postcolonial studies at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco Mustapha Kharoua is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Humanities, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. Mohamed Belamghari is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.

Acknowledgments Foreword by Anouar Majid Introduction by Bouchra Benlemlih and Mustapha Kharoua Chapter 1: Techne or Politeia? Some Notes on Roberto Esposito's Hermeneutic of the Pandemic by Agostino Cera Chapter 2: The Sociological Approach to Collective Behavior in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Critical Review to the Concept of the Logic of Action in French Sociological Literature by Sidi Mohamed Elhassani Chapter 3: The Concept of Man in the West amid the Pandemic, a Hyper-Phenomenon in Nature or an Epiphenomenon to it? By Moulay Abdessadek Ahlbentaleb Chapter 4: Denied Personhood: The Necropolitical Production of Disposability in Mediterranean Migration by Rachid Benharrousse Chapter 5: Pandemics and Socio-economic Reforms: A Comparative-Historical Perspective on Infectious Diseases' Impact on Societies by Mohamed Belamghari and Sara Tabza Chapter 6: Slovenian Crime Fiction in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Imaginary Immunities by Primoz Mlacnik Chapter 7: A Postscript in Verse: Seven Circles of Self by Hassan Mekouar Index About the Editors About the Contributors