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Biosecurity's unruly spaces
Author(s) -
MATHER CHARLES,
MARSHALL AMY
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00392.x
Subject(s) - biosecurity , geopolitics , corporate governance , event (particle physics) , biopower , political science , biology , business , ecology , politics , law , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
This paper is about the geopolitics of animal health governance. Through a biosecurity event in South Africa's pig sector we examine changes in the way the governance of disease risk is configuring intra‐national spaces. Our case suggests an emerging geopolitics of animal health, one that is defined not by differences between nations but by a more complex patchwork of ‘secure’ and ‘unruly spaces’.