Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference
Abstract According to Beck’s ‘World at Risk’ theory, global risks push nations towards a cosmopolitisation of their health policy and open opportunities for a democratic turn. This article provides an empirical analysis of Beck’s theory, based on the experience of Vietnamese authorities from 2003 to...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01539.x 2024-06-09T07:44:51+00:00 Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference Figuié, Muriel 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01539.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9566.2012.01539.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01539.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Sociology of Health & Illness volume 35, issue 2, page 227-240 ISSN 0141-9889 1467-9566 journal-article 2013 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01539.x 2024-05-16T14:24:29Z Abstract According to Beck’s ‘World at Risk’ theory, global risks push nations towards a cosmopolitisation of their health policy and open opportunities for a democratic turn. This article provides an empirical analysis of Beck’s theory, based on the experience of Vietnamese authorities from 2003 to 2007 in managing the emerging avian flu virus. It shows how Vietnam’s framing of avian flu has shifted, under the pressure from international organisations and the US administration, from an epizootic and zoonotic risk (or a classic risk) to a pandemic threat (or a late modern risk). Vietnam’s response was part of its overall strategy to join the World Trade Organization and it was limited by Vietnam’s defence of its sovereignty. This strategy has been successful for Vietnam but has limited the possibility of cosmopolitan and democratic transformations. The case study highlights the constructed dimension of risks of late modernity and their possible instrumentalisation: it minimises the role of a community of fear relative to a community of trade. Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian flu Wiley Online Library Sociology of Health & Illness 35 2 227 240 |
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Abstract According to Beck’s ‘World at Risk’ theory, global risks push nations towards a cosmopolitisation of their health policy and open opportunities for a democratic turn. This article provides an empirical analysis of Beck’s theory, based on the experience of Vietnamese authorities from 2003 to 2007 in managing the emerging avian flu virus. It shows how Vietnam’s framing of avian flu has shifted, under the pressure from international organisations and the US administration, from an epizootic and zoonotic risk (or a classic risk) to a pandemic threat (or a late modern risk). Vietnam’s response was part of its overall strategy to join the World Trade Organization and it was limited by Vietnam’s defence of its sovereignty. This strategy has been successful for Vietnam but has limited the possibility of cosmopolitan and democratic transformations. The case study highlights the constructed dimension of risks of late modernity and their possible instrumentalisation: it minimises the role of a community of fear relative to a community of trade. |
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