Biosecure citizenship: politicising symbiotic associations and the construction of biological threat
Biosecure citizenship: politicising symbiotic associations and the construction of biological threat
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00386.x
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Barker, Kezia
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作者：
Barker, Kezia
新西兰的生物安全政策涉及公民身份的一个新层面，即生物安全公民身份。这种形式的独特之处在于，公民身份的政治决定因素并不完全取决于个人的身体，而是取决于身体与其他实体的联系，即人与非人“共同生活”的相互和相互活动的共生条件。通过其在病原体、病毒和入侵物种的“危险”流动性方面的构成作用，共生个体已被政治化，成为国家决定和控制的问题。当代的生物安全公民意识强调各种契约和非契约责任，这增加了公民的国家坐标，重建共生的个性，并证明国家渗透私人领域。借鉴生物安全立法，公众教育活动和研究与社区除草项目，我图表的加强和实践，这种生物安全的公民。我认为，有一个迫切需要民主化的决策建设的生物威胁，关于在哪里以及如何削减我们的共生协会与不同的物种，物种和空间之间。通过阐明生物安全公民身份不仅是生态责任的话语，而且是权利的话语，生物安全可以重新振兴为“生物安全”，不断质疑生态良好生活的包容性政治。
Biosecurity politics in New Zealand is implicated in the constitution of a new dimension of citizenship, a biosecure citizenship. This form is distinct in that the political determinants of citizenship do not fully rest on the individual body, but on the body's connections to other entities, the inter- and intra-active symbiotic condition of human-non-human 'living together'. Through its constitutive role in enabling the 'dangerous' mobility of pathogens, viruses and invasive species, symbiotic individuality has become politicised as a matter for state determination and control. Contemporary articulations of biosecure citizenship emphasise a variety of contractual and non-contractual responsibilities, which augment the national coordinates of citizenship, reconstitute symbiotic individuality, and justify the state penetration of the private sphere. Drawing on biosecurity legislation, public education campaigns and research with community weed removal projects, I chart the reinforcement and practice of this biosecure citizenship. I argue that there is an urgent need to democratise decisionmaking about the construction of biological threat, about where and how to make cuts in our symbiotic associations with different species, and between species and spaces. By articulating biosecure citizenship not only as a discourse of ecological responsibility but of rights, biosecurity could be reinvigorated as 'bios-security', the inclusive politics of continually questioning the ecological good life.