Long read review: Avian reservoirs: virus hunters and birdwatchers in chinese sentinel posts by Frédéric Keck

Lau, Justin (2020) Long read review: Avian reservoirs: virus hunters and birdwatchers in chinese sentinel posts by Frédéric Keck. LSE Review of Books (21 May 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Frédéric Keck offers a new ethnographic study of how human and animal relations are being reshaped in anticipation of future bird flu pandemics in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, focusing on the varied techniques used to prepare for potential outbreaks. This is an impressive, sophisticated and rewarding book that provides us with a timely toolkit to consider the conditions that develop different techniques of preparedness when it comes to zoonotic disease and pandemics, writes Justin Lau.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 11:36
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104873

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