Center for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Glob Public Health. 2021 Aug-Sep;16(8-9):1411-1423. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1906927. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
Achille Mbembe states that 'the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die […]. To exercise sovereignty is to exercise control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power' (Mbembe, 2003. Necropolitics. , (1), 11-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-11). For Mbembe a key question is 'under what practical conditions is the right to kill, to allow to live, or to expose to death exercised?' (Mbembe, 2003. Necropolitics. , (1), 11-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-11). This article will map the necropolitical underpinnings of racial and class-based health disparities and vulnerabilities in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The article will directly engage with the question of 'under what practical conditions are the right to expose to death' unfolding in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on news media representations and public health data in the UK and the U.S, the article will provide a disciplinary conjecture arguing for the importance of looking at what I call a 'state of acceptance' plays into the necropolitical dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.
阿契勒·姆贝赫（Achille Mbembe）指出，“主权的最终表现形式在很大程度上在于决定谁生谁死的权力和能力[...]。行使主权就是控制死亡率，并将生命定义为权力的运用和表现”（Mbembe，2003. 生死政治学. ，（1），11-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-11）。对姆贝赫来说，一个关键问题是“在什么实际条件下行使杀人、允许生存或暴露于死亡的权利？”（Mbembe，2003. 生死政治学. ，（1），11-40. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-11）。本文将探讨当前 COVID-19 大流行中种族和阶级健康差距和脆弱性的生死政治学基础。本文将直接探讨“在什么实际条件下有暴露于死亡的权利”这一问题，探讨当前 COVID-19 大流行中的情况。本文借鉴了英国和美国的新闻媒体报道和公共卫生数据，提出了一种学科推测，认为有必要关注我所称的“接受状态”在 COVID-19 大流行的生死政治动态中所起的作用。
