Bird flu biopower: Strategies for multispecies coexistence in Viet Nam
Bird flu biopower: Strategies for multispecies coexistence in Viet Nam
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DOI:
10.1111/amet.12010
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发表时间:
2013-02-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Porter, Natalie
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作者:
Porter, Natalie
Outbreaks of SARS, swine flu, and avian influenza have prompted a "One Health" effort to control diseases transmitted between species. Using ethnographic observations from Viet Nam, I reveal how avian flu transforms strategies for living in light of human vulnerability to animals. Positing a multispecies approach to biopower, I argue that techniques for safeguarding human-animal collectivities confront heterogeneous moral codes surrounding animals' role in knowledge hierarchies, village economies, and notions of individual worth. This analysis provides a framework for reconceptualizing biopower in relation to emerging diseases and reenvisions the role of animals in the politics of life itself. [biopower, human-animal relations, avian influenza, Vie t Nam, multispecies ethnography, ethics]