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Liberating Sick Birds: Poststructuralist Perspectives on the Biopolitics of Avian Influenza

Year: 2015

Type: article

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 Hong Kong. It suggests the possibility of an animist perspective on birds in the neoliberal governmentality of epidemics.

Source: Cultural Anthropology

DOI: 10.14506/ca30.2.05

Author: Frédéric Keck

Institutions: Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2116575022

FWCI: 13.94

Cites: 7

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10