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    "pk": 39563,
    "title": "Defying the normal: biopolitics and the rising bodies in the time of Covid-19",
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    "abstract": "This article discusses the biopolitics of the coronavirus pandemic practiced on both human and non-human animals. I begin by introducing the idea of biopolitics and othering. I then bring two animals, bats and minks, together to explain the role of biopolitics in manipulating the bodies of non-human animals. In particular, I compare the discourses surrounding both animals that frame bats as the wild and minks as the productive— the categorization of both disembodies the animals and subjects them to exploitation. I also examine the role of the environment in creating a shared vulnerability between human and non-human animals. I argue that the coronavirus pandemic is a crisis evoked by a system that profits from the use of biopolitics through the creations of dichotomies between the “normal” and the “abnormal.” To reimagine our future, we need to seek a sustainability that fosters entanglements, instead of separations, of all creatures.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
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        {
            "first_name": "Yanjing",
            "middle_name": "(Tracy)",
            "last_name": "Liu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "San Diego State University",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2021-01-04T22:43:33Z",
    "date_accepted": "2021-01-04T22:43:33Z",
    "date_published": "2021-05-03T23:20:09Z",
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