Fox Nick J
Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH UK.
Soc Theory Health. 2022;20(2):107-122. doi: 10.1057/s41285-022-00179-3. Epub 2022 Apr 20.
This paper establishes a relational, post-anthropocentric and materialist approach to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Analysis of the 'pandemic assemblage' reveals that the virus has subverted the social and economic relations of capitalism, enabling its global spread. This insight establishes a materialist framework for exploring socio-economic disparities in Covid-19 incidence and death rates, via a more-than-human and monist analysis of capitalist production and markets. Disparities derive from the 'thousand tiny dis/advantages' produced by people's daily interactions with human and non-human matter, making sense of the unequal occupational patterning of coronavirus incidence. This more-than-human approach supplies a critical alternative to the mainstream public health and scientific perspectives on the pandemic, with important implications for current and future policy to counter future microbiological outbreaks.
本文建立了一种关于新冠疫情的关系性、后人类中心主义和唯物主义的研究方法。对“疫情组合”的分析表明，该病毒颠覆了资本主义的社会和经济关系，使其得以在全球传播。这一见解通过对资本主义生产和市场进行超越人类的一元分析，为探究新冠疫情发病率和死亡率方面的社会经济差异建立了一个唯物主义框架。差异源于人们与人类及非人类物质的日常互动所产生的“无数微小的不利/有利因素”，这有助于理解冠状病毒发病率不平等的职业模式。这种超越人类的研究方法为关于该疫情的主流公共卫生和科学观点提供了一种批判性的替代视角，对当前及未来应对未来微生物爆发的政策具有重要意义。
