The Sky Is Falling
Risk, Safety, and the Avian Flu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Squier (0000-0002-0061-8201), Susan M Squier (Gender Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-409 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-2007-073 |
| OpenAlex | W2098531138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The rhetoric of risk and safety has shaped, and unfortunately limited, our contemporary reservoir of responses to H5N1, the avian flu virus. This essay turns to an old children's story, "The Story of Chicken-Licken," to recover the folk wisdom obscured with the development of industrial poultry farming. Both the risk of a transspecies outbreak of high pathogen avian flu and the measures promised to ensure our safety in such a crisis are culturally constructed, reflecting the racialized, scientized, and commodified nature of contemporary chicken farming
Biology · Bird flu · Commodification · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Environmental health · Ethnology · Falling (accident) · Geography · Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 · Outbreak · Political economy · Political science · Poultry farming · Rhetoric · Sociology · Virus · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Medicine · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Virology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |