This preliminary thesis dissertation proposes an investigation into the relationship colonial emotional frames that produce or reproproduce stigma became and remain encoded in the International Health Regulations. This project can be considered interdisciplinary and part of socio-legal studies. It will be combining traditional doctrinal analysis with corpus-based critical discourse analysis, theoretical frameworks from emotions, cultural, and political science studies as analytical tools, and using qualitative data software (MAXQDA) to through the text of their proceedings and resultant conventions code and trace how early colonial hierarchies and their emotional frames became embedded in international public health governance approaches. It contains a comprehensive literature review covering the colonial history and evolution of the IHRs, stigma and infectious disease, and theoretical frameworks on emotion; a section identifying relevant legal issues and research questions; a research methods and methodology section that outlines corpus-based critical discourse analysis (CDA) and a tiered analytical structure incorporating the theoretical models from Hall, Ahmed, and Aaltola I have chose to work with; a proposed chapter structure, plan of work and timeline; and a prospective table of contents
