Framing Bio-emergencies in Fiction: The Cases of ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’

Natà lia Cantó-Milà and Isaac Gonzà lez-Batlletbò
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Natà lia Cantó-MilÃ: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
Isaac Gonzà lez-Batlletbò: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain

Sociological Research Online, 2019, vol. 24, issue 1, 111-125

Abstract: This article analyses the first seasons of two interconnected AMC series, ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. Our analysis focuses on how these shows frame the emergence of a bio-risk, how the leading characters deal with the experience of bio-risks, and how they develop (or fail at developing) strategies to overcome, or, if this renders impossible, to tame such bio-risk. We have used a Grounded Theory approach to analyse the data, frame our analysis, and create a theoretical understanding of the ways these shows present bio-risks, and of the ways they depict the fictional experience of living a bio-emergency, without any official, institutional plan regarding to how to deal with it.

Keywords: bio-emergency; Fear the Walking Dead; fiction; imaginaries of risk; risk; state of exception; The Walking Dead; TV-series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780419827969

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