Reprogramming the story: Edible insects as vaccines

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Lisa Onaga
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Animal-centric scientific research during the pandemic has produced an epistemic dilemma, in which knowledge about the evolutionary nature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its transmission to humans produces discrimination against Asian peoples as a by-product. More constructive awareness and analysis of how frameworks that support narratives of human exceptionalism persist and lead to this conundrum are needed in order to envision ways to redistribute global ways of knowing zoonotic epidemics beyond questions concerning origins. By exploring the history of the baculovirus expression system (a biological technology relying on a moth-specific virus to mass-produce recombinant proteins) and how it came to be used in recent vaccine development, this essay explores expanding, changing uses of insects that complicate the familiar binary categories that pit them as either harmful or beneficial. The conceptual undoing of this binary illuminates possibilities for the kinds of conversations that are necessary to work against the hate- and fear-driven dehumanisation that the pandemic enabled. © 2022 The authors.
重新规划故事:可食用昆虫作为疫苗
在疫情期间,以动物为中心的科学研究产生了一种认识困境,在这种困境中,关于严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒2型病毒进化性质及其向人类传播的知识会产生对亚洲人的歧视。需要对支持人类例外论叙事的框架如何持续存在并导致这一难题进行更具建设性的认识和分析,以便设想如何在起源问题之外重新分配全球了解人畜共患流行病的方式。通过探索杆状病毒表达系统(一种依靠蛾特异性病毒大规模生产重组蛋白的生物技术)的历史,以及它是如何在最近的疫苗开发中使用的,本文探索了昆虫的不断扩大和变化的用途,这些用途使人们熟悉的二元分类复杂化,使它们成为有害或有益的。这种二元对立的概念性消除阐明了进行必要对话的可能性,这些对话是对抗疫情造成的仇恨和恐惧驱动的非人化所必需的。©2022作者。
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International Review of Environmental History
International Review of Environmental History Arts and Humanities-History
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