Avian influenza, ‘viral sovereignty’, and the politics of health security in Indonesia

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ID12207131
AutoresShahar Hameiri (0000-0003-1290-5141, Murdoch University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas333-356
Data de publicação2014-04-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Pacific Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-2748 • E-ISSN: 1470-1332
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09512748.2014.909523
OpenAlexW2095292691
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas29

In December 2006, Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, shocked the world when announcing her government would no longer be sharing samples of the H5N1 avian flu virus, collected from Indonesian patients, with the World Health Organization, at a time when global fears of a deadly influenza pandemic were running high. For observers of Southeast Asian politics, the decision reinforced the view of the region as made up of states determined to protect their national sovereignty, at almost all costs. This established view of the region, however, generally neglects the variable and selective manner in which sovereignty has been invoked by Southeast Asian governments, or parts thereof, and fails to identify the conditions shaping the deployment of sovereignty. In this paper, it is argued that Siti's action was designed to harness claims of sovereignty to a domestic political struggle. It was a response to the growing fragmentation and, in some cases, denationalisation of the governance apparatus dealing with public health in Indonesia, along with the ‘securitisation’ of H5N1 internationally. The examination of the virus-sharing dispute demonstrates that in Southeast Asia sovereignty is not so much the ends of government action, but the means utilised by government actors for advancing particular political goals

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