Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI:10.1093/ips/olad003

Jaroslav Weinfurter

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article explores the limitations of the oft-used biopolitical frameworks of interpreting the regulatory emergency measures that have been enacted worldwide in the face of the spreading pandemic of COVID-19. Not only have the state responses to coronavirus often been beset by manner of “biopolitical failures,” it is also the Foucauldian emphasis on the top-down formation and application of immunity that produces a view of health security that is much too narrow. In proposing an alternative framework, the article draws from the spherology of Peter Sloterdijk and suggests a transition from bio- to a distinctly sphero-political theory of immunity that is capable of integrating the ontological synergies that exist between human bodies, spaces, and atmospheres. More specifically, the spheropolitics of coronavirus are discussed in relation to the security dispositif of the household and examined through the case of the Czech Republic.

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生物政治之外的安全：冠状病毒大流行的地缘政治、共同免疫和大气

本文探讨了在新冠肺炎疫情蔓延的情况下，在解释全球范围内制定的监管紧急措施时，采用的生物政治框架的局限性。国家对冠状病毒的反应不仅经常受到“生物政治失败”的困扰，而且福科式对自上而下的免疫力形成和应用的强调，也产生了一种过于狭隘的健康安全观。在提出另一个框架时，文章借鉴了彼得·斯卢特迪克的球学，并建议从生物免疫理论向独特的球政治免疫理论过渡，该理论能够整合人体、空间和大气之间存在的本体论协同作用。更具体地说，冠状病毒的全球政治与家庭的安全处置有关，并通过捷克共和国的案例进行了研究。

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International Political Sociology Multiple-

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4.80

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.