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Infrastructuring zoonoses

Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention

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ID11948769
AuthorsCharis Enns (0000-0002-6796-7465, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK, corresponding author), Brock Bersaglio (0000-0002-8506-8025, University of Birmingham)
Year2024
Volume48
Issue5
Pages575-594
Publication date2024-06-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/03091325241248848
OpenAlexW4399353847
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited155

This article critically reviews geographical scholarship to develop five categories for conceptualising the plurality of zoonotic disease situations configured through infrastructure. These are infrastructures that (1) unmoor zoonoses, (2) mobilise zoonoses, (3) immobilise zoonoses, (4) leak zoonoses, and (5) surveil zoonoses. Our analysis of these categories complicates notions that infrastructure either spreads or stops zoonoses and reveals the varied bio- and necro-politics associated with zoonotic disease situations configured through infrastructure. Before concluding, we review principles of infrastructuring zoonoses otherwise to help mobilise geographical scholarship in support of anti-anthropocentric, care-full, and probiotic approaches to modulating zoonoses in the (post)pandemic era

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Environmental ethics · Geography · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Zoonotic diseases and public health

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