Wagner School of Public Service, New York University.
Med Anthropol Q. 2020 Dec;34(4):561-577. doi: 10.1111/maq.12625. Epub 2020 Dec 4.
This article looks at the use of public health strategies to define political membership in the nation. I examine the use of the cordon sanitaire to mitigate the novel coronavirus in Qatar. I argue that it acts primarily as a boundary to map out zones of political exclusion, splitting those who are entitled to protection from disease from those who are not. Through an analysis of the logic, application, and history of the cordon sanitaire in Qatar and elsewhere, I argue that it is only a more explicit example of the ways that governments have applied public health measures such that they apportion exposure to COVID-19, protecting some while mandating exposure for others. Exposure, or protection from it, has become a means to spatialize power and territorialize the national imaginary, separating full members from those who are excluded and reduced to their economic function.
本文探讨了公共卫生策略在定义国家政治成员身份方面的应用。我考察了使用卫生隔离带来减轻卡塔尔新型冠状病毒的情况。我认为，它主要作为一种边界，划分出政治排斥的区域，将那些有权获得疾病保护的人与那些没有资格的人区分开来。通过对卫生隔离带在卡塔尔和其他地方的逻辑、应用和历史进行分析，我认为它只是政府应用公共卫生措施的一个更明显的例子，这些措施使人们面临 COVID-19 的暴露程度不同，保护了一些人，而要求另一些人暴露。暴露或免受暴露已经成为一种权力空间化和国家想象领土化的手段，将完全成员与那些被排斥和被简化为其经济功能的人区分开来。
