Compter les virus, observer les oiseaux
This article compares the uses of data banks by virologists and birdwatchers during the mobilization around Avian Flu in Hong Kong. Criticizing governments who do too little or too much, these groups use data banks to understand the conditions in which viruses mutate from their animal reservoir. By...
| Published in: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | French |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2013
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3917/rac.021.0857 https://doaj.org/article/7aebba5b253046fbb2ef4e0cf5ff9ad0 |
| Summary: | This article compares the uses of data banks by virologists and birdwatchers during the mobilization around Avian Flu in Hong Kong. Criticizing governments who do too little or too much, these groups use data banks to understand the conditions in which viruses mutate from their animal reservoir. By constituting an environmental sentinel, these two groups link biosecurity to biodiversity, introducing techniques of “hunting” in the biopolitical world. |
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