Love in the Time of Zika
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See moreLove in the Time of Zika tracks the Zika public health crisis to challenge assumptions about human and nonhuman reproduction and show how climate change is transforming it.
Love in the Time of Zika examines the transformation of reproductive politics spurred by the Zika public health emergency in 2016. The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease with a direct link to fetal and children’s disabilities, provoked the surveillance of and intervention into women’s and girls’ bodies and lives.
Paige Marie Patchin tracks this period of intense reproductive experimentation, from fast contraceptive implant insertion drives in Puerto Rico to the genetic modification of mosquitoes in Brazil, to explore the future of reproduction as environmental crises mount, public infrastructures wilt, and walls rise.
Patchin questions what kind of a world we are building if the response to dangerous, global environmental problems like Zika is to pit fetuses against one another in a future of limited resources. Set between the twin spectres of eugenics and fascism, Love in the Time of Zika argues for the relevance of reproduction to wider questions about what it means to be people living amongst other people, and people living amongst other beings.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781478038740
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 June 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Duke University Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 445g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Paige Marie Patchin is Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at the University College London.
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