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...
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| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/4363 |
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| 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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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |