ABSTRACT

The UK government has consistently claimed to be ‘following the science’ in its approach to the pandemic but this claim conceals complex and shifting entanglements of politics and science. The instability of the relationship between politics and science became increasingly visible around the unequal vulnerability of racialized minorities to infection and death from Covid-19. How and when Black and other minoritized deaths matter has become the focus of UK governmental efforts to delay and deflect, in what has been claimed to be the ‘best country in the world to be a black person’. Rather than the rule of Science, what the pandemic reveals are the conjunctural contested articulations of science(s) and politics.

摘要

英国政府一贯声称在应对大流行病时采取“跟随科学”的态度，但这种说法掩盖了政治与科学之间复杂而不断变化的纠缠。政治和科学之间关系的不稳定性在种族化少数群体对Covid-19的感染和死亡的不平等脆弱性中越来越明显。在被称为“世界上最好的黑人国家”的地方，黑人和其他少数族裔死亡事件的如何和何时成为英国政府努力推迟和转移的焦点。流行病揭示的不是科学规则，而是科学和政治的合相竞争的表述。