Hybrid Threats and Preparedness Strategies
The Reconceptualization of Biological Threats and Boundaries in Global Health Emergencies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jose A Cañada (0000-0002-1549-3528, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-110 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1360780418816332 |
| OpenAlex | W2921260478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
Pandemic emergencies are one of the foremost examples of the turn to preparedness. In this article, I discuss how biological threats are conceptualized inside the frame provided by such turn, connecting with novel governance practices aimed at tackling the challenges posed by the constantly shifting boundaries of global health. First, I review existing literature related to the turn to preparedness. This turn has turned virtual biological threats into the main drivers for preparedness planning. Second, I use empirical material to argue a redefinition of biological threats as entities that go beyond the molecular boundaries of viruses, turning hybrid social networks into the main object of interest for global health response before infectious diseases. This reconceptualization is manifested in three different challenges to the boundaries of global health emergencies: (1) a temporal challenge, which forces institutions to struggle with situating the boundary between event and non-event; (2) an institutional challenge, which brings together different actors, institutions, and organizations redefining their internal and external boundaries; and (3) a spatial challenge, whereby the territorial lines of secure and insecure spaces become mobile and unstable. As a conclusion, I will argue that those three challenges and the redefinition of certain boundaries are ways to govern a wider divide constructed by preparedness that aims at separating the threat and an object of protection
Boundary object · Business · Corporate governance · Disease · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Negotiation · Pandemic · Political science · Preparedness · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Zoonotic diseases and public health
Risky creatures
Sorting Things Out
The Politics of Life Itself
Biopreparedness
Assembling, disassembling and reassembling ‘youth services’ in Austerity Britain
Securing circulation pharmaceutically
Performing preemption
Conceptualizing Biorisk
Anticipating emergencies
Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola
The Pandemic Perhaps
Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life
Del biopoder al cinepoder en los dispositivos de bioseguridad de la Unión Europea
Politics of the Virtual
Biosecure citizenship
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Beyond Risk
The global condition of epidemics
More than one world, more than one health
Rethinking Urban Epidemiology
Theorizing global health
Preparing for the Next Emergency
The re-forming state
Pre-empting Emergence
A pre-event configuration for biological threats
The Generic Biothreat, Or, How We Became Unprepared
Biosecurity
Pandemic Prophecy, or How to Have Faith in Reason
Governing Future Potential Biothreats
Real-time biopolitics
Governing insecurity
Enacting catastrophe
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |