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Vita05a


New borders of health: human mobility, sensor society, and COVID-19 
Convenors:
Robin Rodd (Duke Kunshan University)
Miguel Vatter (Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Vitality
Location:
NIKERI KC2.211
Sessions:
Thursday 24 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Melbourne

Short Abstract:

The management of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a proliferation of new borders and sensoring technologies giving rise to debate on the conflicts between right to health and right to mobility. This panel interrogates the subjectivities associated with new forms of health bordering and sensoring.

Long Abstract:

The management of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a proliferation of new controls and borders giving rise to a politicized discussion on the conflicts between right to health and right to mobility. From the administration of vaccine mandates, to track and trace apps that disable entry to venues or urban zones, to city-wide lockdowns and sealed international borders, countries have developed various strategies to contain COVID-19 by restricting movement. More recently, China has introduced ‘closed loop management’ of entire cities and the mass deportation of covid-19 positive cases to quarantine camps. These new procedures mean that borders can no longer be imagined as unidimensional political structures dividing states, are increasingly justified in public health terms, and exist in nested hierarchies from the microscopic to the planetary. Mobility for many is now contingent on passing through several borders that exist in overlapping jurisdictions, requiring the ongoing updating of multiple biolegitimacy platforms. While many of these policies and technologies have been critically received by citizens throughout the world, the the bio-digital infrastructure for regulating human movement and measuring the legitimacy of one’s health and political status remains prevalent. This panel seeks to interrogate the convergence of the technosphere (sensoring technologies and biolegitimacy apps) and the zoosphere (COVID-19 and other population health dynamics). What terms of debate, dissent and justification exist around globally diverse experiences of health bordering? What new subjectivities have emerged alongside these new forms of bordering and sensoring? And how do these intersect with existing socioeconomic cleavages?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 23 November, 2022, -