This special issue has undeniably been in process for some time – the first paper was published online three years ago – in part because of the impacts of Covid-19 on the everyday lives of authors, reviewers, and editors of Environment and Planning C. The pandemic has (among other things) emphasised the multiple ways in which our education systems, the economy, everyday habits, and the government are all tied up with one another. The assemblage of various public and private infrastructures to enact a state-based biopolitics in response to each of the viral variants occurred in front of our very eyes, as did the resistance to that biopolitics both by populations who saw state-oppression in public health measures and by the virus itself, which evolved in synchronic emergence with the cacophonous human responses. Never has the role of the more-than-human in our politics been more apparent; never has the amalgamation of the state and society been so readily on display (Mitchell, 1991). So while the special issue has been delayed, its relevance has only been made more clear.

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现状：特刊简介

不可否认，这期特刊已经出版了一段时间——第一篇论文于三年前在线发表——部分原因是 Covid-19 对Environment and Planning C的作者、审稿人和编辑的日常生活的影响. 大流行（除其他外）强调了我们的教育系统、经济、日常习惯和政府以多种方式相互联系。各种公共和私人基础设施的组合以制定基于国家的生物政治以应对每种病毒变种就发生在我们眼前，正如在公共卫生措施中看到国家压迫的人群对这种生物政治的抵抗一样以及病毒本身，它随着人类嘈杂的反应同步出现而进化。超人类在我们政治中的作用从未如此明显；国家和社会的融合从来没有像现在这样轻易地展现出来（Mitchell，1991）。因此，虽然特刊被推迟了，但它的相关性只是变得更加明确。