"We have knowledge that is unique": Patient activism and the promotion of trans-inclusive primary care.

Despite growing visibility of the trans population in Israel, there has been limited research on trans healthcare in a local context, particularly in the field of primary care medicine. Primary care encompasses services provided in locally distributed clinics and has a crucial role in providing both preventive and specialized healthcare. The aim of this study is to outline barriers to trans-inclusive primary care and measures employed by the trans community to overcome them. Biopower and counter-conduct are used as analytical frameworks to examine the trans-exclusionary features of the Israeli healthcare system and steps taken to resist it. To examine these issues, 19 medical care professionals and 20 trans people and activists were interviewed, and a variety of relevant texts were analyzed. Our results indicate trans-exclusionary features in primary healthcare, such as ambiguity regarding trans-inclusive services offered, sex-specific treatments, and lack of medical training programs dedicated to the trans population. To overcome these difficulties, the Israeli trans community has accumulated communal experiential knowledge and transferred it to physicians and policymakers in a localized and informal manner. We argue that by using informal practices, the trans community can provide support and information to its own members as well as operate alongside power systems, albeit in a slow and lengthy manner. More generally, the findings of this study highlight howf patient activism is employed by marginalized populations, who face not only health disparities, but institutional discrimination as well.

Botany and national identities: The Tokyo Cherry.

When Japan faced the world after the collapse of its feudal system, it had to invent its own modern identity in which the Tokyo Cherry became the National Flower. Despite being a garden plant, it received a Latin scientific species name as if it was an endemic species. After Japan's colonial conquest of Korea, exploring the flora of the peninsula became part of imperial knowledge practices of Japan. In the wild, a different cherry was discovered in Korea that was proposed as the endemic parent of the Tokyo Cherry, supporting imperialist policies. Following Japan's defeat after the Pacific War, South Korea in turn entered its search for cultural identity. The supposed parent of the Tokyo Cherry was now successfully acclaimed as the parent species of the colonial oppressor's Tokyo Cherry and named the King Cherry. Such scientific practice into cherries smoothly intertwined with nationalism and its legacy continues to interfere with research today.

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Hesitancy among Black People in Canada.

OBJECTIVES: COVID-19 vaccine mandates increased vaccination rates globally. Implemented as a one-size-fits-all policy, these mandates have unintended harmful consequences for many, including Black Canadians. This article reports findings on the interconnectedness of vaccine mandates and vaccine hesitancy by describing a range of responses to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies among Black people in Canada. METHODS: Using qualitative research methods, semi-structured interviews with 36 Black people living in Canada aged 18 years and over across 6 provinces in Canada were conducted. Participants were selected across intersectional categories including migration status, income, religion, education, sex, and Black ethnicity. Thematic analysis informed the identification of key themes using Foucauldian notions of biopower and governmentality. RESULTS: Our results show how the power relations present in the ways many Black people actualize vaccine intentions. Two main themes were identified: acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine in the context of governmentality and resistance to vaccine mandates driven by oppression, mistrust, and religion. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 vaccine mandates may have reinforced mistrust of the government and decreased confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine. Policy makers need to consider non-discriminatory public health policies and monitor how these policies are implemented over time and across multiple sectors to better understand vaccine hesitancy.

Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims.

Some of Michel Foucault's work focusses on an archeological and genealogical analysis of certain aspects of the medical episteme, such as 'Madness and Civilization' (1964/2001), 'The Birth of the Clinic' (1973) and 'The History of Sexuality' (1978/2020a). These and other Foucauldian works have often been invoked to characterize, but also to normatively interpret mechanisms of the currently existing medical episteme. Writers conclude that processes of patient objectification, power, medicalization, observation and discipline are widespread in various areas where the medical specialty operates and that these aspects have certain normative implications for how our society operates or should operate. The Foucauldian concepts used to describe the medical episteme and the normative statements surrounding these concepts will be critically analyzed in this paper.By using Foucault's work and several of his interpreters, I will focus on the balance between processes of subjectification and objectification and the normative implications of these processes by relating Foucault's work and the work of his interpreters to the current medical discipline. Additionally, by focusing on the discussion of death and biopower, the role of physicians in the negation and stigmatization of death is being discussed, mainly through the concept of biopower. Lastly, based on the discussion of panopticism in the medical discipline, this paper treats negative and positive forms power, and a focus will be laid upon forms of resistance against power. The discussed aspects will hopefully shed a different and critical light on the relationship between Foucault's work and medicine, something that eventually can also be deduced from Foucault's later work itself.

The Common Point of Countries Successful Policies in the Struggle Against COVID-19: Women Leaders.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the biggest epidemics of the last century and can be regarded as a global tragedy, leaders had to mobilize many resources of their countries quickly and persuade their citizens to change their routine behavior. The approach followed by the leaders of the country in their efforts to convince their people has been an important factor in their success or failure. This paper aims to examine with Michel Foucault's notion of biopower, and discourses and behaviors of women leaders in countries against the global pandemic which cost high life tool gave harsh messages to the humanity. For this purpose, leadership examples in Finland, Iceland, Taiwan and New Zealand will be examined in detail using the discourse analysis technique. As a result, in current times when populist and autocratic leader style is on the rise, women leaders not only took their countries to success, but they also managed to inspire other countries. More importantly, the struggle of women leaders against the pandemic revealed that a different management style is possible.

Does the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an infra-state of exception: Turkey's responses and dismantling its medico-scientific policies.

The new coronavirus strain that spread across the globe in clusters and claimed millions of lives has significantly impacted how subjectivity and power are performed. The scientific committees empowered by the state have become the leading actors, lying at the heart of all responses to this performance. The article critically examines the symbiotic interaction of these dynamics regarding the COVID-19 experience in Turkey. The analysis of this emergency is divided into two basic stages: the pre-pandemic period, during which infra-level healthcare and risk mechanisms evolve, and the early post-pandemic period, during which alternative subjectivities are marginalised to hold a monopoly over the new normal and victims. Pivoting around the scholarly debates about sovereign exclusion, biopower, and environmental power, this analysis concludes that the Turkish case is an encounter in which these techniques are materialised within the body of the 'infra-state of exception.'

Questioning 'Informed Choice' in Medical Screening: The Role of Neoliberal Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Context.

Participation in medical screening programs is presented as a voluntary decision that should be based on an informed choice. An informed choice is often emphasized to rely on three assumptions: (1) the decision-maker has available information about the benefits and harms, (2) the decision-maker can understand and interpret this information, and (3) the decision-maker can relate this information to personal values and preferences. In this article, we empirically challenge the concept of informed choice in the context of medical screening. We use document analysis to analyze and build upon findings and interpretations from previously published articles on participation in screening. We find that citizens do not receive neutral or balanced information about benefits and harms, yet are exposed to manipulative framing effects. The citizens have high expectations about the benefits of screening, and therefore experience cognitive strains when informed about the harm. We demonstrate that decisions about screening participation are informed by neoliberal arguments of personal responsibility and cultural healthism, and thus cannot be regarded as decisions based on individual values and preferences independently of context. We argue that the concept of informed choice serves as a power technology for people to govern themselves and can be considered an implicit verification of biopower.

"My job is to keep my body healthy": biopedagogies, beauty and institutional greed in professional ballet.

CONTEXT: The ballet institution is known for its aesthetic and performative standards. In professional dancers' everyday lives, self-improvement and body awareness entwine with striving for artistic excellence. In this context, 'health' has primarily been explored in relation to eating disorders, pain, and injuries. AIM: This paper explores dancers' health practices, namely how they are shaped by the ballet institution and how they relate to broader health discourses. METHODOLOGY: A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted upon interviews with nine dancers (each interviewed twice) using a theoretical framework based on the concepts of greedy institutions and biopedagogies. ANALYSES: Two themes were developed: What it takes to be an 'insider' of the ballet institution and Learning to develop an acute embodied self-awareness. Dancers described ballet as a 'lifestyle' rather than a 'job'; practices of self-care defined by continuous self and body work were framed as necessary to meet the demands of this lifestyle. Participants 'played with' institutional and societal norms, often resisting docile bodies promoted within the ballet institution. CONCLUSION: Dancers' constructions of health and the art of ballet as not fitting neatly into 'good' nor 'bad' make room to consider the tensions between adopting and resisting dominant health discourses in this institution.

Development of an Integrated Salt Cartridge-Reverse Electrodialysis (Red) Device to Increase Electrolyte Concentrations to Biomedical Devices.

Emerging technologies in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering have led to an increase in the use of implantable biomedical devices. These devices are currently battery powered which often means they must be surgically replaced during a patient's lifetime. Therefore, there is an important need for a power source that could provide continuous, stable power over a prolonged time. Reverse electrodialysis (RED) based biopower cells have been previously used to generate continuous power from physiologically relevant fluids; however, the low salinity gradient that exists within the body limited the performance of the biopower cell. In this study, a miniaturized RED biopower cell design coupled with a salt cartridge was evaluated for boosting the salt concentration gradient supplied to RED in situ. For the salt cartridge, polysulfone (PSf) hollow fibers were prepared in-house and saturated with NaCl solutions to deliver salt and thereby enhance the concentration gradient. The effect of operational parameters including solution flow rate and cartridge salt concentration on salt transport performance was evaluated. The results demonstrated that the use of the salt cartridge was able to increase the salt concentration of the RED inlet stream by 74% which in turn generated a 3-fold increase in the open circuit voltage (OCV) of the biopower cell. This innovative adaptation of the membrane-based approach into portable power generation could help open new pathways in various biomedical applications.

Narrative Metadata: Leaving the War Metaphor Behind and Unpacking the Control Tactics of Biopower in COVID-19.

Narratives are a veritable type of metadata. Narratives are power-laden storylines that conjure up emotions and enact value systems that markedly affect scientific practices, and to what ends, and for whom science and health innovations are made available. Narratives, if they are left unchecked, can undermine critical thinking and the agency of publics, threatening the possibilities for robust, responsible, relevant, and democratic science. One such narrative, a sociotechnical metadata in its own right, and of immense relevance in the current historical moment of the pandemic, is the uncritical use of the war and other military metaphors in COVID-19 science and planetary health interventions. In October 2022 issue of OMICS, Ebru Yetiskin adopts a biophilosophical transdisciplinary approach and feminist versions of science and technology studies to examine the ways in which the war discourse and other military metaphors have been deployed for the sake of biopower during COVID-19. In this article, we discuss the need to critically unpack the narrative metadata to leave the war metaphor behind, and hold to account the control tactics of biopower embedded in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Erratum: Quantification in experimental psychology and pragmatic epistemology: Tension between the scientific imperative and the social imperative.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.603617.].

"Following Anne Lister: Continuity and queer history before and after the late nineteenth century".

This article addresses the question of whether Anne Lister can be considered a lesbian through a reassessment of how the modern period is conceptualized within the history of sexuality. Returning to the original texts that first defined the history of sexuality project, the article emphasized that those texts indicate that the mechanisms of biopower and identity formation based on cultural texts undergo their most significant shift in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, rather than in the late nineteenth. The formation of sexuality as a disciplinary mechanism, and identities based on it, originated in the late nineteenth century, but many of the mechanisms through which this occurred were in operation earlier. Much of what is now known about gender and sexuality in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was unknown at the time that the history of sexuality project was first formulated, leading to a starker divide being drawn between the late nineteenth century and earlier periods than is warranted. This article argues that the example of Anne Lister can lead to a better appreciation of the continuities in how cultural texts shaped understandings of desire from the early eighteenth century forward.

Biopolitics of "Acquired Immunity": The War Discourse and Feminist Response-Abilities in Art, Science, and Technology During COVID-19.

If we are to adequately decipher and make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which large populations as well as their immune systems have responded to the virus, we ought to map the broader sociomaterial contexts in which a planetary health crisis, such as COVID-19, has been situated. Adopting a biophilosophical approach and feminist versions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article problematizes the virality of the war discourse and its tactical uses for the sake of biopower during COVID-19. Also, a queering lens is used to question the military metaphors deployed during COVID-19. Queering is understood in this article as to make change, and to act in a way that is disruptive of allegedly oppressive power structures. Queering seeks to expose or otherwise uncover that norms are, in fact, just limitations on a far broader set of possibilities. With the aim of exploring how critical associations can extend their response-abilities for the exploitative, authoritarian, and racist forces of biopower, the article examines the skilled practices and intra-actions of a feminist collective, FEMeeting-Women in Art, Science and Technology. Acknowledging the social relevance of a core community for acquiring immunity and its role for the future, a feminist conception of the virus played a key role in queering all kinds of anthropocentric and essentialist views by biohacking, DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIWO (Do It With Others) techniques in the actions and coproductions of FEMeeting. Of note, the war metaphor operated as a tactic for camouflaging and obfuscating the facts in the course of the pandemic. The findings reveal that paratactical commoning, which is a self-reflexive collective knowledge production in artistic and hacktivist research, emerges as a way in which political ontological potentials can be critically activated within communities of action. The feminist lenses on COVID-19, and the paratactical commoning presented in this article, are of broad interest to systems scientists to explore the ways in which biopower, and the previously unchecked war discourse and militaristic metaphors coproduce COVID-19 acquired immunity and the social injustices. Understanding not only the biology but also the biopolitics of acquired immunity to the control of COVID-19 is, therefore, crucial for systems medicine and planetary (health) care that is at once effective, resilient, foreseeable, and just.

COVID-19 in the United States as affective frame.

In this paper I attempt to contribute to the developing field of "political philosophy of mind." To render concrete the notion of "affective frame," a social situation which pre-selects for salience and valence of environmental factors relative to a subject's life, I conduct a case study of a deleterious socially instituted affective frame, which, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, produced individuated circumstances that came crashing down on "essential workers" who were forced into a double bind. We saw here an untenable and ultimately fatal situation that forced a choice between, on the one hand, increasing the risk of their failing to provide financial support for their family if they quit their job or reduced their hours, and on the other, increasing their risk of contracting the virus by continuing to work. The case study will thus be itself an affective frame that will bring to the fore for its readers a nexus of harmful social practices of contemporary American society. Form is reinforced by content here, as this particular affective frame brings forth a further emphasis on affect when we focus on workers simultaneously socialized into roles as breadwinners and as members of the caring professions. For those people, quitting work becomes even more difficult as they come to affirm their self-identity of being providers of affective labor for those in their care at work and of being the affective anchor of family life at home, the one who financially helps keep a roof over the heads of their loved ones as well as being the emotional backbone of the family. Hence the affective frame of "essential workers in Covid times" renders salient and affirmatively valenced their affectively laden self-image as caring helpers of those in need, at home and at work.

Embodying biopolitically discriminate borders: teachers' spatializations of race.

Borders are constructs that shape our understandings of our societies, communities, and the world. Geospatial borders draw distinctions between neighborhoods and schools that are deemed 'worthy' and 'unworthy' of economic, social, and political investment. This paper employs the theoretical framework of 'discriminate biopower' to argue that geospatial borders produce a 'socio-political invisibility' linked to race and racial inequality. Through focus group discussions with kindergarten - grade eight educators in the Chicago metropolitan area of the United States, this paper provides evidence of how understandings of race are spatially applied by teachers. Findings suggest that teachers located and conflated individuals and racial groups with physical locations, demonstrating how spatial borders and the practice of bordering function as a biopolitical and segregationist way to understand race and power.

Replacing coal in Georgia's power plants with woody biomass to increase carbon benefit: A mixed integer linear programming model.

To combat climate change, reducing carbon emissions from coal consumption in the power sector can be an effective strategy. We developed a price-exogenous mixed integer linear optimization model satisfying both traditional timber demand in Georgia and its neighboring states (Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) and additional bioenergy demand to replace coal in the power plants of Georgia for 50 years, maximizing social welfare. We used Forest Inventory & Analysis unit level yield of five forest types (planted softwood, natural softwood, upland hardwood, bottomland hardwood, and mixed forest), timber demand, and price information, and developed three scenarios. In the Baseline scenario, traditional annual timber demand (152 million tons of wood) was satisfied with no coal replacement. In Scenario 1, 100% coal (7.34 million tons annually) was replaced using pulpwood only, along with traditional demand. In Scenario 2, also with traditional demand, 100% coal was replaced using pulpwood and logging residues. It would require approximately 336 and 98 thousand acres of additional annual timberland harvested in Scenario 1 and Scenario 2, respectively, compared to Baseline (1280 thousand acres). During 50 years, a total of 9.3, 10.2, and 9.6 billion tons of timber was produced in Baseline, Scenario 1, and Scenario 2, respectively. About one-third of all torrefaction plants would be located in the central region of Georgia. The net change in stand carbon was positive in all three scenarios-the highest in Baseline (1330 million tons C), followed by Scenario 2 (1261 million tons C), and the lowest in Scenario 1 (872 million tons C). About 240 million tons of carbon was avoided by using biomass instead of coal in Scenario 1 and Scenario 2. In Baseline, with continued emission from coal usage in the power plant for 50 years (285 million tons C), net carbon benefit was 1046 million tons C. Replacing 100% of coal with both pulpwood and logging residues provided a net benefit of 1501 million tons C, about 43% higher compared to baseline.

Empreendedorismo na apropriação cultural reacionária da religião / Entrepreneurship in the reactionary cultural appropriation of religion / Emprendimiento en la apropiación cultural reaccionaria de la religión

Xenofobias, fundamentalismos, sectarismos, comunitarismos, preconceitos, moralismos, estigmas e discriminações negativas fazem parte dos efeitos de biopoder deste acontecimento. Este artigo discute o negócio da religião que opera por meio de elementos específicos da religiosidade e andam junto com acontecimentos políticos, econômicos, sociais, subjetivos e culturais por meio da biopolítica, da disciplina, da soberania jurídica e de mecanismos de segurança, no capitalismo neoliberal de cunho empresarial. A igreja-empresa e de um fiel próspero é parte dos efeitos deste dispositivo de governo das condutas. Busca-se demonstrar como a aliança entre os setores mais reacionários com a extrema direita, no Brasil, produz certa forma de biopoder por meio das práticas de extermínio de minorias sociais, racismos de toda sorte, sexismos e modos de vida higienistas.

Xenophobias, fundamentalisms, sectarianisms, communitarianism, prejudices, moralism, stigmas, and negative discriminations are part of the biopower effects of this event. This paper explores how the business of religion operates through specific elements of religiosity through the sieve that goes hand in hand with political, economic, social, subjective, and cultural events through biopolitics, discipline, legal sovereignty, and security mechanisms in business-oriented neoliberal capitalism. The church business and a prosperous believer are part of the effects of this conduit governing device. It seeks to demonstrate how the alliance between the most reactionary sectors with the far right in Brazil produces a certain form of biopower through the extermination practices of social minorities, the racism of all kinds, sexism, and hygienist ways of life.

| Las xenofobias, los fundamentalismos, los sectarismos, los comunitarismos, los prejuicios, los moralismos, los estigmas y las discriminaciones negativas son parte de los efectos del biopoder de este evento. Este artículo analiza el negocio de la religión que opera a través de elementos específicos de la religiosidad que van de la mano con eventos políticos, económicos, sociales, subjetivos y culturales a través de mecanismos de biopolítica, disciplina, soberanía legal y seguridad en el capitalismo neoliberal orientado a los negocios. El negocio de la iglesia y los fieles prósperos son parte de los efectos de este dispositivo de gobierno de conducto. Busca demostrar cómo la alianza entre los sectores más reaccionarios con la extrema derecha en Brasil produce una cierta forma de biopoder a través de las prácticas de exterminio de las minorías sociales, racismo de todo tipo, sexismo y formas de vida higienistas.

Contrapontos e inconsistências do discurso da produtividade do agronegócio e suas externalidades sob a ótica do biopoder / Counterpoints and inconsistencies in the discourse of agribusiness productivity and its externalities from the perspective of biopower

RESUMO Este ensaio se propõe à análise crítica do agronegócio, buscando construir um modelo teórico compreensivo, tendo como referência o conceito de biopoder de Foucault. Pretende ainda contribuir para as discussões de alternativas sustentáveis e de combate às ações que promovem e flexibilizam o uso de agrotóxicos. Argumenta-se que o agronegócio, apesar de ter tido sua imagem construída por discursos que ressaltam sua eficiência e produtividade, impõe barreiras que impedem a garantia da segurança alimentar e nutricional. Pelo uso intensivo de agrotóxicos, também não disponibiliza alimentos seguros e de qualidade, ao mesmo tempo que impacta o meio ambiente e compromete a saúde da população, somado aos seus impactos políticos, econômicos, sociais e culturais. A análise sob a ótica do biopoder destaca que a atuação das indústrias agrícola, agroquímica e de alimentos, enquanto normatizadoras e geradoras de consumo, desconsideram princípios morais e éticos, infringem direitos humanos e a autonomia dos sujeitos. Paralelamente, propõe-se que, por meio da educação popular e a educação alimentar e nutricional, consegue-se, em longo prazo, construir sujeitos e coletividades autônomos e críticos, capazes de transformar as estruturas de poder vigentes e de agir em prol de políticas públicas que fomentem práticas justas, saudáveis, sustentáveis e éticas.

ABSTRACT This essay proposes a critical analysis of agribusiness, seeking to build a comprehensive theoretical model based on Foucault's concept of biopower. It also proposes to contribute to the discussions of sustainable alternatives and to combat actions that promote and make the use of pesticides more flexible. It is argued that agribusiness, despite having its image built by speeches that emphasize its efficiency and productivity, imposes barriers that prevent the guarantee of food and nutritional security. Due to the intensive use of pesticides, it also does not provide safe and quality food, while it impacts the environment and compromises the health of the population, added to its political, economic, social, and cultural impacts. The analysis from the perspective of biopower highlights the performance of the agrochemical and food industries, as standards and generators of consumption, disregards moral and ethical principles, infringes human rights and the autonomy of the subjects. At the same time, it is proposed that, through long term popular education and food and nutrition education, it is possible to build autonomous and critical subjects and collectives, capable of transforming the existing power structures and acting in favor of public policies that promote practices that are fair, healthy, sustainable, and ethical.

Nem essência, nem aparência: a produção de corpos, "normalidades" e liberdades mediadas pelas tecnociências / Neither essence nor appearance: the production of bodies, "normalities" and freedoms mediated by technosciences

Resumo Este artigo investiga em que medida certos corpos materializam as normas a partir de intervenções das tecnociências contemporâneas. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo em que foram construídas três narrativas de pessoas que vivenciaram transformações corporais drásticas por meio de restrições alimentares, atividades físicas excessivas ou cirurgias bariátricas. Essas histórias foram tensionadas com literatura antropológica sobre o corpo e com as elaborações de teóricas feministas, especialmente Judith Butler e Donna Haraway, de forma a fomentar um debate a respeito dos efeitos individuais e coletivos da autoprodução de novas subjetividades. Evidencia-se, finalmente, que, no processo de materialização da "normalidade", as fronteiras entre a natureza e a técnica são borradas e os corpos podem se abrir tanto para novos constrangimentos como para novos projetos de liberdade em que nem suas supostas essências nem suas aparências estão mais em jogo.

Abstract In this article, we investigate to what extent some bodies materialize the norms from interventions of contemporary technosciences. It is a qualitative study in which three narratives of people who experienced drastic bodily transformations through dietary restrictions, excessive physical activities or bariatric surgeries were constructed. These stories were juxtaposed with anthropological literature about the body and with the elaborations of feminist theorists, especially Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, in order to foster a debate about the individual and collective effects of the self-production of new subjectivities. Finally, it is evident that, in the process of materializing "normality", the boundaries between nature and technique are blurred and bodies can open up to new constraints as well as to new projects of freedom, in which neither their supposed essences, nor their appearances are at stake anymore.

Socialized medicine has always been political: COVID-19, science and biopower in India.

In this article, we discuss the tensions surrounding science, biopower, and citizenship that have been thrown into sharp relief by the COVID 19 pandemic. We situate these tensions in the epistemological and political conflict between science, public health education, and alternative medical systems that has been rekindled by the pandemic in India. To do so, we critically examine media articles and health education documents in the form of illustrated narratives/posters to show how education, science, and biopower are inseparable; and must therefore be considered an important part of any programme of critical justice-oriented science education. We employ a biopolitical framework, drawing largely from the work of Michel Foucault, to expose relevant sociopolitical tensions between tradition and modernity, truth and power, governance and science, which are invoked in times of crisis (such as pandemics) and give shape to fundamentals issue of science and citizenship. This article attempts to add to the conversation begun by Flavia Rezende et al.'s (2021) "South Epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education", who related the COVID-19 pandemic to the political situation in Brazil emphasizing the necessity to reclaim indigenous ways of being and relating to nature. We draw implications for science education research and praxis that exceed any one pandemic or political crisis.