The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to
the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and
the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics this collection brings together a
number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long
transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Contributors explore the intertwinement
of biopolitics and othering with regard to specific bodies people and places in relation to
COVID-19 and beyond as they discuss othering dynamics in the context of post colonialism and
with reference to a number of different cultural political medical and media discourses.