Biopolitical Binaries (or How Not to Read the Chinese Protests)
On 26 November, prompted by a deadly fire in a high-rise apartment block in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, protesters took to streets and campuses across the country calling for an end to the restrictive ‘zero covid’ policy (清零政策) (Davidson and Yu 2022). Unsurprisingly, the libertarian-right, anti-maskers, and anti-vaxxers wasted no time in celebrating the […]
Biopolitical Binaries (or How Not to Read the Chinese Protests) Written on 2 December 2022 . Posted in Article , Op-eds . Author: Christian Sorace and Nicholas Loubere Made in China: Prometheus in China July—December 2022 On 26 November 2022, prompted by a deadly fire in a high-rise apartment block in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, protesters took to streets and university campuses across China calling for an end to the country’s restrictive ‘zero Covid’ policy (清零政策) (Davidson and Yu 2022). Unsurprisingly, the libertarian right, anti-maskers, and anti-vaxxers in
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