Fitzgerald Des
University of Exeter, UK.
Sociol Res Online. 2021 Nov 25;28(2):596-606. doi: 10.1177/13607804211049464. eCollection 2021 Jun.
In this contribution, I present emergent analysis of a preoccupation with managing COVID-19 through border control, among non-Governmental public health actors and commentators. Through a reading of statements, tweets, and interviews from the 'Independent Sage' group - individually and collectively - I show how the language of border control, and of maintaining immunity within the national boundaries of the UK, has been a notable theme in the group's analysis. To theorize this emphasis, I draw comparison with the phenomenon of 'green nationalism', in which the urgency of climate action has been turned to overtly nationalistic ends; I sketch the outlines of what I call 'viral nationalism,' a political ecology that understands the pandemic as an event occurring differentially between nation states, and thus sees pandemic management as, inter alia, a work of involuntary detention at securitized borders. I conclude with some general remarks on the relationship between public health, immunity, and national feeling in the UK.
在本论文中，我展示了对非政府公共卫生行为者和评论员中通过边境管控应对新冠疫情的一种关注点的新兴分析。通过阅读“独立智者”组织的声明、推文以及个人和集体访谈，我展示了边境管控以及在英国国界内维持免疫力的措辞如何成为该组织分析中的一个显著主题。为了对这种强调进行理论化，我将其与“绿色民族主义”现象进行比较，在“绿色民族主义”中，气候行动的紧迫性被转向了公然的民族主义目的；我勾勒出了我所称的“病毒民族主义”的轮廓，这是一种政治生态学，它将大流行病理解为在不同民族国家间发生的事件，因此将大流行病管理视为，尤其是在安全化边境进行的非自愿拘留工作。最后，我对英国公共卫生、免疫力和民族情感之间的关系做了一些一般性评论。
