TY - JOUR
T1 - Avian Influenza Risk Environment
T2 - Live Bird Commodity Chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh
AU - Hog, Erling
AU - Fournie, Guillaume
AU - Hoque, Md. Ahasanul
AU - Mahmud, Rashed
AU - Pfeiffer, Dirk U.
AU - Barnett, Tony
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - In this paper, we identify behaviours in live bird commodity chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh, which may influence the risk of pathogen emergence and transmission: the nature of poultry trade, value appropriation and selling sick or infected birds. Examining the reasons why actors engage in these behaviours, we emphasise the politics of constraints within a context of real-world decisions, governed by existential and pragmatic agency. Focusing on contact zones and entanglement, analysing patron-client relationships and precarious circumstances, we argue that agency and structure specific to the Bangladeshi context produce a risk environment. Structural constraints may reinforce risky occupational practises and limit individual agency. Structural constraints need to be addressed in order to tackle animal and zoonotic disease risk along live animal commodity chains.
AB - In this paper, we identify behaviours in live bird commodity chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh, which may influence the risk of pathogen emergence and transmission: the nature of poultry trade, value appropriation and selling sick or infected birds. Examining the reasons why actors engage in these behaviours, we emphasise the politics of constraints within a context of real-world decisions, governed by existential and pragmatic agency. Focusing on contact zones and entanglement, analysing patron-client relationships and precarious circumstances, we argue that agency and structure specific to the Bangladeshi context produce a risk environment. Structural constraints may reinforce risky occupational practises and limit individual agency. Structural constraints need to be addressed in order to tackle animal and zoonotic disease risk along live animal commodity chains.
KW - Bangladesh
KW - avian influenza
KW - commodity chains
KW - risk environment
KW - agency-structure
KW - anthropology
KW - SURVEILLANCE
KW - ANTHROPOLOGY
KW - MARKETS
KW - POWER
KW - H5N1
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U2 - 10.3389/fvets.2021.694753
DO - 10.3389/fvets.2021.694753
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
C2 - 34616791
SN - 2297-1769
VL - 8
JO - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
JF - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
M1 - 694753
ER -
