Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines.
Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao, Philippines.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Feb;294:114695. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114695. Epub 2021 Dec 31.
The purpose of this article is to advance the concept of bodies-in-waiting as an everyday infrastructure to explain the shifting nature of 'pandemic cities' in response to the changing dynamics of infection control in urban spaces. While previous literatures have been 'sanitized' to emphasize the importance of managing optimal physiological health and safety, we would like to argue that keener attention is needed to rethink the constitutive role of bodies in co-producing a city's sociopolitical ecologies at this time of crisis. The main body is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the political dimensions of pandemic response by various governments with an emphasis to experiences of middle to low income countries. Our intention is to show how these studies bring into light the role of local politics of pandemic response within countries, and that actual governance mechanisms in cities are shaped and contested by shifting power blocs and emergent affinities. The second section forwards an embodied urban political approach that conceptualizes bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure. In this view, bodies-in-waiting is produced and reproduced by complex social-material flows and transformation rooted in variegated matrices of power through which urban spaces are (re)assembled. The last section demonstrates a sample case that shows how bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure are understood using Twitter-sourced data associated with the Philippine government's disciplinary quarantine measures which started March 12, 2020 in the NCR. At its core, bodies-in-waiting as infrastructures populate a politically affirmative urban imaginary of bodies living on despite the existence of an accelerated and mutating virus in slower moving cities.
本文旨在提出“候身”（bodies-in-waiting）这一概念，将其作为一种日常基础设施，用以解释“疫情城市”（pandemic cities）在城市空间感染控制的动态变化下所呈现出的转变特性。虽然以往的文献已经“净化”（sanitized），以强调管理最佳生理健康和安全的重要性，但我们认为，在这个危机时刻，需要更敏锐地关注身体在共同构建城市社会政治生态方面的构成作用。本文主体分为三个部分。第一部分介绍了各国政府对疫情的政治应对，并重点介绍了中低收入国家的经验。我们旨在展示这些研究如何揭示出各国国内疫情应对的地方政治作用，以及城市实际治理机制是如何受到不断变化的权力集团和新兴亲和力的塑造和挑战的。第二部分提出了一种具身的城市政治方法，将“候身”（bodies-in-waiting）概念化为基础设施。从这个角度来看，“候身”（bodies-in-waiting）是通过根植于城市空间（re）组装的多样化权力矩阵中的复杂社会物质流和转变而产生和再生产的。最后一部分展示了一个案例，说明了如何利用与菲律宾政府 2020 年 3 月 12 日在 NCR 开始实施的纪律隔离措施相关的推特（Twitter）数据来理解“候身”（bodies-in-waiting）作为基础设施。核心观点是，“候身”（bodies-in-waiting）作为基础设施，在一个加速和变异病毒在缓慢移动的城市中仍然存在的情况下，为身体在政治上积极的城市想象提供了基础。
