biosecurity

is engaged with understanding and managing both disease and security in innovative ways.

Biosecurity engages 'new practices and knowledge formations' designed to understand and manage both 'disease and security' in innovative ways [7]. Biosecurity is also a response to challenges within weakened public health systems, the 'return of the microbe' in the form of new frightening diseases like SARS and West Nile virus and the ongoing battle against the AIDS epidemic [8]. Biosecurity also extends to political events such as the post-September 11 World Trade Center bombing where biological threats in the form of posted letters contained deadly anthrax bacteria [9]. There emerges, in these aforementioned events, a sense of being threatened, endangered and in dire times, requiring of preventive interventions [10]. Where the dangerous non-human is concerned, it is also depicted as protectable, manageable and controllable. Along the same vein, intervention measures employed to control the spread of H5N1 influenza in Indonesia allow me to analyse how national sovereignty, biosecurity and science interact. (net)

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