Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out in the first year of the pandemic, this article discusses how people’s experiences with COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state–citizen relations. Coinciding with a significant government crisis, the first year of COVID-19 in Austria saw pandemic measures justified with reference to a biological, often medical understanding of health that framed disease prevention in terms of transmission reduction, often with reference to metrics such as hospitalisation rates, etc. Instead of using this biomedical frame, our interviewees, however, drew attention to biopsychosocial dimensions of the crisis and problematised the entanglements between economy and health. We call this the emergence of a biosocial notion of citizenship that is attentive to psychological, social and economic dimensions of health. Insights into the biosocial nature of pandemic citizenship open a window of opportunity for addressing long-standing social injustices.

本文借鉴大流行第一年对奥地利居民进行的 152 次深入定性访谈，讨论了人们对 COVID-19 政策的经历如何反映和重塑国家与公民关系。恰逢一场重大政府危机，奥地利在 COVID-19 爆发的第一年看到了流行病措施的合理性，这些措施参考了对健康的生物学（通常是医学）理解，这些理解将疾病预防定义为减少传播，通常参考住院率等指标然而，我们的受访者并没有使用这种生物医学框架，而是提请人们关注危机的生物心理社会层面，并对经济与健康之间的纠葛提出问题。我们称之为公民生物社会概念的出现，它关注健康的心理、社会和经济层面。对流行病公民身份的生物社会性质的洞察为解决长期存在的社会不公正现象打开了一扇机会之窗。