Open AccessLIBERATING SICK BIRDS: Poststructuralist Perspectives on the Biopolitics of Avian Influenza
Author(s) -
KECK FRÉDÉRIC
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca30.2.05
Subject(s) - biopower , governmentality , sociality , biosecurity , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , perspective (graphical) , eider , sociology , environmental ethics , ethnology , geography , political science , biology , zoology , virology , ecology , politics , law , philosophy , virus , artificial intelligence , computer science
ABSTRACT How can birds take part in the surveillance of animal diseases under contemporary biosecurity practices? Combining Claude Lévi‐Strauss's analyses of bird sociality and mad cow disease, this article looks at the multiple ways of releasing birds in Honk Kong. It suggests the possibility of an animist perspective on birds in the neoliberal governmentality of epidemics.