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Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
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Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares.By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect its citizens from infectious disease, Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares examines the connection between international health governance and the emerging Western liberal world order. The case studies, including SARS, Bird Flu and Swine Flu, provide an understanding of how the world order, global health governance and peoples bodies interact to produce scares and panics. Aaltola introduces an innovative new concept of politosomatics based on the relationship that links individual stress, strain, and fear with global circulations of power to evaluate increasingly global bio-political environments in which pandemics exist.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Global Health, International Public Health and Global Health governance.

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Understanding the Politics of
Pandemic Scares

By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect its citizens from infectious disease, Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares examines the connection between international health governance and the emerging Western liberal world order. The case studies, including SARS, Bird Flu, and Swine Flu, provide an understanding of how the world order, global health governance and peoples bodies interact to produce scares and panics. Aaltola introduces an innovative new concept of politosomatics based on the relationship that links individual stress, strain, and fear with global circulations of power to evaluate the increasingly global bio-political environments in which pandemics exist.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Global Health, International Public Health and Global Health governance.

Mika Aaltola is Academy Fellow, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland.

Routledge studies in governance and public policy

1 Public Sector Ethics

Finding and implementing values

Edited by Charles Sampford and Noel Preston with Carol-Anne Bois

2 Ethics and Political Practice

Perspectives on legislative ethics

Edited by Noel Preston and Charles Sampford with Carol-Anne Bois

3 Why Does Policy Change?

Lessons from British transport policy 194599

Jeremy Richardson and Geoffrey Dudley

4 Social Relations and Social Exclusion

Rethinking political economy

Peter Somerville

5 Local Partnerships and Social Exclusion in the European Union

New forms of local social governance?

Edited by Mike Geddes and John Benington

6 Local Governance in England and France

Alistair Cole and Peter John

7 Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

The quest for control

Edited by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre

8 Urban Governance and Democracy

Leadership and community involvement

Edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart

9 Legitimacy and Urban Governance

A cross-national comparative study

Edited by Hubert Heinelt, David Sweeting and Panagiotis Getimis

10 The Idea of Public Service

Reflections on the higher civil service in Britain

Barry OToole

11 Changing Images of Civil Society

From protest to government

Edited by Bruno Jobert and Beate Kohler-Koch

12 Reasserting the Public in Public Services

New public management reforms

Edited by M. Ramesh, Eduardo Araral and Wu Xun

13 Governing Modern Societies

Towards participatory governance

Hubert Heinelt

14 Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares

An introduction to global politosomatics

Mika Aaltola

Understanding the Politics of
Pandemic Scares

An introduction to global politosomatics

Mika Aaltola

First published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park Abingdon Oxon - photo 1

First published 2012
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Mika Aaltola

The right of Mika Aaltola to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Aaltola, Mika.
Understanding the politics of pandemic scares : an introduction to global politosomatics / Mika Aaltola.

p. cm. (Routledge studies in governance and public policy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Communicable diseasesPolitical aspects. 2. World politics

Psychological aspects. 3. World health. 4. Health behavior. I. Title.

RA643.A175 2011

616.9dc22

2011006694

ISBN: 978-0-415-60381-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-80573-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Times
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Contents

Abbreviations

9/11	11 September 2001, the day when several terrorist attacks took place in the US, including the bombing of the World Trade Centres twin towers in New York City
AIDS	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
BSE	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CJD	Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
CNN	Cable News Network
EC	European Commission
EU	European Union
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
HIV	Human Immunodeficiency Virus
PEPFAR	Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
SARS	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
TSE	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
UK	United Kingdom
UN	United Nations
US	United States of America
vCJD	Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
WHO	World Health Organization
WMDs	Weapons of Mass Destruction

1 Introduction

Diseases desperate grown

By desperate appliances are relieved,

Or not at all.

Shakespeare, Hamlet

In emergencies, the prevailing global sentiment is often one of mobilized empathy. The sight of a starving child in Africa may lead to a sense of compassion and the need to rush in to intervene on behalf of this distant sufferer (Aaltola 2009). Highly rehearsed ritualistic donor behaviour and rescue efforts may follow. Yet, the sight of the dead and suffering swine fu victims in Mexico in the spring of 2009 led to a sudden global jolt of aversion and fear. The immediate global reflex a similar reaction to the emergence of those infected by other perceived pandemics was that of distancing and severing contacts with the site of the unfamiliar and deadly disease outbreak. The momentum of pandemic emergencies is towards disengagement with the suffering distant other. It is one of containment, rather than compassion. In this sense, a pandemics affective flows are unlike other global emergencies they are seemingly non-compassionate rushes towards withdrawal and to contain the disease in a certain place, spot or zone. If there is other-interestedness, it is towards the people living close by or towards the general public, conceived of in terms of national, international and global public health.

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