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47 Austl. Feminist L.J. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/afemlj47 and id is 1 raw text is: Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2021 Routledge Vol. 47, No. 1, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1949144 * Taylor &Fr 00 Group INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON HYGIENE, COLONIALITY AND LAW Alice Finden*, Gina Heathcote** and Paola Zichi*** 1.0 WRITING IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC This special issue was conceived in September 2019, just a few months before the out- break of a virus that quickly became know as COVID-19-a strain of coronavirus causing, among other symptoms, a severely acute respiratory syndrome-and unleashed a global pandemic. The Special Issue has been realised throughout these difficult times and many of the features of the global pandemic relate closely to the theme of this Special Issue. Our work started at the end of 2019 and aimed to discuss gendered, racialised and colonial constructions of hygiene, health and law. In the early months of the pandemic, the preparatory work for the Special Issue moved online and the Call for Papers was followed by an online workshop held in September 2020. On that occasion, despite the global circumstances, established aca- demics and emerging early career scholars made space for sharing ideas and meth- odological tools to tackle this multifaceted research topic. While state-imposed legal measures to contain the pandemic began to affect aspects of our daily lives-differently and unequally dislodging conceptions and habits of labour and care, responsibility and death-the questions that were raised through our workshop and papers mirrored the contemporary events unfolding in front of us: how do state-sponsored legal regimes cast diseased and stigmatised people; how do states redefine moral and legal grounds for social control; how do states regulate access to health-care systems; how do states control and police mobi- lities; and how do they define sexuality, affects and love, being a few of them. The interventions collected in this Special Issue look at hygiene and the intertwin- ing of medical, legal and moral discourses, predominantly reflecting on the historical circumstances that reproduce and reinforce the inequalities and injustices rooted in colonial systems of states. Reading across the articles in the Special Issue, our authors demonstrate how looking critically at the historical construction of hygiene *Alice Finden is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Law, Gender and Media, SOAS University of London. Email: af33@soas.ac.uk **Gina Heathcote is Professor of Gender Studies and International Law, School of Law, Gender and Media, SOAS University of London. Email: gh21@soas.ac.uk *** Paola Zichi is a postdoctoral researcher working on HRC-DfG UK-German project on the Illicit Jewish Exchange: Jewish Pimps, Prostitutes and Campaigners in a Transnational German and British Context, 1875-1940 at the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London. Email: p.zichi@qmul.ac.uk © 2021 Australian Feminist Law Journal Inc.

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