Transpacific疾病

IF 1.2 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES
Corey Byrnes
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摘要

本文关注的是太平洋两岸的焦虑和威胁文化。在描写“崛起”的中国时,威胁是一个特别有用的类别,因为中国经常被想象成一个局部环境破坏的地方,预示着即将到来的全球崩溃,同时也是一个容易跨越国界的污染源。特别是在全球北方,中国已经成为经济焦虑的焦点,这种焦虑被长期以来的种族和文化威胁所笼罩。本文通过调查太平洋两岸具有代表性的文化,直面中国威胁论。它聚焦于最近发生的一系列事件,这些事件以文字和视觉形式为媒介,展现了人类与猪这一物种之间的当代伦理剧:2009年的猪流感大流行,2013年上海黄浦江上漂浮着数千头死猪的事件,以及2013年中国企业集团双汇(Shuanghui)收购美国最大猪肉生产商之一史密斯菲尔德食品公司(Smithfield Foods)的事件。为了理解威胁的表象和随之而来的暴力反应之间的变化,人们不仅要关注可量化的风险,还要关注人类世中表征焦虑的文化形式。最终,利害攸关的不仅仅是地缘政治关系或公共卫生,还有经常被屠杀以保护人类的动物的生死。
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Transpacific Maladies
This article centers on cultures of anxiety and threat across the Pacific. Threat is an especially useful category for writing about a “rising” China, which is often imagined both as a site of localized environmental ruination that prefigures imminent global collapse and as a source of contamination that easily crosses national borders. Particularly in the global North, China has become a focal point for ecoanxieties that are shadowed by longer histories of perceived racial and cultural threat. This article confronts the idea of China as threat by investigating representational cultures across the Pacific. It focuses on a series of recent events mediated through textual and visual forms that unfold as a contemporary ethical drama between species—the human and the pig: the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a 2013 episode in which thousands of pig carcasses were found floating in Shanghai’s Huangpu River, and the 2013 purchase of Smithfield Foods, one of America’s biggest pork producers, by the Chinese conglomerate Shuanghui. To understand the movement between the representation of threat and the violent responses that flare up in its wake, one must pay attention not only to quantifiable risks but also to the cultural forms that characterize anxiety in the Anthropocene. Ultimately, what is at stake is not just geopolitical relations or public health but also the lives and deaths of the animals that are so often slaughtered to protect humans.
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Social Text
Social Text CULTURAL STUDIES-
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