Chiropteran Reservoirs. Bat Keepers and Bat Carers in Ghana and Australia

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ID2143289
AutoresFrédéric Keck (0000-0002-7711-7288, Collège de France), Arnaud Morvan (Collège de France, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume90
Fascículo1
Páginas91-109
Data de publicação2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2023.2226360
OpenAlexW4382073220
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas46

This article studies how zookeepers and wildlife rescuers build relations with bats using experimental apparatuses such as cages. Arguing that interspecies communication with bats as reservoirs of infectious diseases can be described through material environments, such as a bat shelter in Ghana and a bat refuge in Australia, rather than in the short contacts between bats and 'virus hunters', it questions how humans can take the perspective of bats in contemporary assemblages of biosecurity. While bat keepers in Accra take the perspective of bats through the viruses they carry as a colony, in a cynegetic logic of storage, bat carers in Australia take the perspective of bats by sharing bodily fluids, in a pastoral logic of care. What is shared in the interspecies communication is framed by the material design of the biosecurity apparatus

Biology · Biosecurity · Environmental ethics · Geography · Perspective (graphical · Wildlife · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Zoonotic diseases and public health