Cargando…

H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China

In this article, I trace how the race-making of people, viruses, and the places they share became a powerful means by which Chinese public health professionals made sense of two major infectious outbreaks that threatened to stall or interrupt China’s development: the SARS outbreak of 2003 and the H1...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mason, Katherine A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7090737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12116-015-9198-y
_version_ 1783509952761954304
author Mason, Katherine A.
author_facet Mason, Katherine A.
author_sort Mason, Katherine A.
collection PubMed
description In this article, I trace how the race-making of people, viruses, and the places they share became a powerful means by which Chinese public health professionals made sense of two major infectious outbreaks that threatened to stall or interrupt China’s development: the SARS outbreak of 2003 and the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009. By inscribing geographical stability onto infected bodies in motion through the languages of race and genetics, Chinese public health professionals sought to constrain the mobility of infection and, in doing so, to contain the symbolic and material threats to China’s modernity and development that flu-like infections, and the people who carried and spread them, had come to represent. While SARS in this imaginary became a “Chinese” or “Cantonese” disease, H1N1 became a EuroAmerican disease that, when it reached inside China, adhered more easily to those Chinese who did not quite belong. In constructing this imaginary, public health professionals’ racialization of certain groups thought to be infectious joined with the racialization of the infections themselves. H1N1 could not easily infect most Chinese because both the virus and its hosts were racially alien.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7090737
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2015
publisher Springer US
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-70907372020-03-24 H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China Mason, Katherine A. Stud Comp Int Dev Article In this article, I trace how the race-making of people, viruses, and the places they share became a powerful means by which Chinese public health professionals made sense of two major infectious outbreaks that threatened to stall or interrupt China’s development: the SARS outbreak of 2003 and the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009. By inscribing geographical stability onto infected bodies in motion through the languages of race and genetics, Chinese public health professionals sought to constrain the mobility of infection and, in doing so, to contain the symbolic and material threats to China’s modernity and development that flu-like infections, and the people who carried and spread them, had come to represent. While SARS in this imaginary became a “Chinese” or “Cantonese” disease, H1N1 became a EuroAmerican disease that, when it reached inside China, adhered more easily to those Chinese who did not quite belong. In constructing this imaginary, public health professionals’ racialization of certain groups thought to be infectious joined with the racialization of the infections themselves. H1N1 could not easily infect most Chinese because both the virus and its hosts were racially alien. Springer US 2015-09-14 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC7090737/ /pubmed/32218614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12116-015-9198-y Text en © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Article
Mason, Katherine A.
H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title_full H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title_fullStr H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title_full_unstemmed H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title_short H1N1 Is Not a Chinese Virus: the Racialization of People and Viruses in Post-SARS China
title_sort h1n1 is not a chinese virus: the racialization of people and viruses in post-sars china
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7090737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12116-015-9198-y
work_keys_str_mv AT masonkatherinea h1n1isnotachinesevirustheracializationofpeopleandvirusesinpostsarschina