Reframing New Zealand’s Biosecurity Conversation Post-Covid-19: An Argument for Integrating Interspecies Concerns

Author: McDonald, D. A.
Published in National Security Journal, 24 August 2020

14 New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Plan: A Framework for Action (Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2017). Retrieved from https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/influenza-pan­demic-plan-framework-action-2nd-edn-aug17.pdf.

15 Zoonotic diseases (or zoonoses) are diseases that spread from animals to humans. Some zoonot­ic diseases can spread between animal species before transferring to the human population, and some can then spread from human to human – such as COVID-19. For more information see the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, last reviewed 14 July 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoo­notic-diseases.html.

16 Bernard Avishai, “The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global Sys­tem”, The New Yorker, 21 April 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system.

17 Andrew Donaldson. “Biosecurity After the Event: Risk Politics and Animal Disease.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40, no. 7 (2008): 1552-1567.

18 See for example: Henry Buller. “Safe from the Wolf: Biosecurity, Biodiversity, and Competing Philosophies of Nature.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40, no. 7 (2008): 1583- 1597. Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, & Sarah Taylor, eds. Biosecurity: The Socio-politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases. London: Routledge, 2013. Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham. “Secur­ing Life: The Emerging Practices of Biosecurity.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40, no. 7 (2008): 1534-1551.

19 Nigel Clark. “Mobile Life: Biosecurity Practices and Insect Globalization. Science as Culture, 22, no. 1 (2013):16-37, p. 18.

20 Andrew Donaldson. “Governing Biosecurity.” In Biosecurity: The Socio-politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, edited by Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker and Sarah Taylor. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 61-74.

21 Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham. “Securing Life: The Emerging Practices of Biosecurity.” Envi­ronment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40, no. 7 (2008): 1534-1551, p. 1542.

22 Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow. “Biosecurity: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary.” Anthropology Today, 20, no. 5 (2004): 3-7, p. 3.

23 Referring to the 2015 fruit fly biosecurity response based in Grey Lynn, Auckland. For more infor­mation, see the Ministry for Primary Industries, last reviewed 11 June 2020, https://www.biosecurity. govt.nz/protection-and-response/responding/alerts/queensland-fruit-fly/eradication-of-queensland-fruit-fly/.

24 Bruce Braun. “Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics.” In Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil. Oxford: Wi­ley-Blackwell, 2008, pp. 250-266, p. 258.

25 Ibid, pp. 250-266.

26 Kezia Barker. “Introduction: Interrogating Bio-insecurities.” In Biosecurity: The Socio-politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, edited by Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker and Sarah Taylor. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 3-28.

27 Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, last reviewed 14 July 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/one­health/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html.

28 S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil, eds. Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Ox­ford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

29 Braun, 2008.

30 Steve Hinchliffe and Kim J. Ward. “Geographies of Folded Life: How Immunity Reframes Biosecu­rity.” Geoforum, 53 (2014): 136-144.

31 Steve Hinchliffe, John Allen, Stephanie Lavau, Nick Bingham and Simon Carter. “Biosecurity and the Topologies of Infected Life: From Borderlines to Borderlands.” Transactions of the Institute of Brit­ish Geographers, 38, no. 4 (2013): 531-543.

32 Hinchliffe and Ward, 2014, p. 143.

33 Steve Hinchliffe, John Allen, Stephanie Lavau, Nick Bingham and Simon Carter. “Biosecurity and the Topologies of Infected Life: From Borderlines to Borderlands.” Transactions of the Institute of Brit­ish Geographers, 38, no. 4 (2013): 531-543.