Hadas Henner-Shapira's research while affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other places

... Multilateral organisations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic might not be the "big one" that epidemiologists have long feared. 1 Since the first reports of the coronavirus began circulating, the WHO has repeatedly called for increased surveillance and the need to prepare for even deadlier pandemics in the future. Even before the pandemic, directions for different kinds of international relations in complex networks, filiations and connections were featured in scholarship on "biosecurity" from the fields of geography, anthropology, and political science (Mutsaers, 2015;Samimian-Darash et al. 2016). Building on Michel Foucault's theory of biopolitics, which had emphasised problems of circulation and unmediated flows of natural phenomena in national citizenries, the biosecurity scholarship emphasised the interwoven aspects of contagion and infectivity. ...