Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic

At its inception, the COVID-19 pandemic was described as something inherently new, capable of crossing and erasing the economic, racial, gendered, and religious divides that stratify societies around the world. However, the ongoing pandemic is not new or egalitarian, but fuelled by, and fuelling, cr...

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Autores principales:	Rebecca Duncan, Johan Höglund
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Publicado:	Donner Institute 2021
Materias:	Pandemic decolonisation Covid-19 capitalocene climate emergency postcolonial studies Philosophy. Psychology. Religion B Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790 Religion (General) BL1-50
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0a59f522143c4473a729e7e5d66400822021-11-29T16:00:05ZDecolonising the COVID-19 pandemic10.30664/ar.1077431799-3121https://doaj.org/article/0a59f522143c4473a729e7e5d66400822021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journal.fi/ar/article/view/107743https://doaj.org/toc/1799-3121At its inception, the COVID-19 pandemic was described as something inherently new, capable of crossing and erasing the economic, racial, gendered, and religious divides that stratify societies around the world. However, the ongoing pandemic is not new or egalitarian, but fuelled by, and fuelling, crises already under way on a global scale. In this article we examine on the one hand the relationship between the pandemic and still-active formations of racialised and gendered power, and on the other the pandemic's inextricability from a dispersed and uneven planetary emergency. As the environmental historian Jason W. Moore notes, this emergency disproportionately affects ‘women, people of colour and (neo)colonial populations’ (2019: 54), and the effects of COVID-19 are similarly unevenly allocated. Rebecca DuncanJohan HöglundDonner InstitutearticlePandemicdecolonisationCovid-19capitaloceneclimate emergencypostcolonial studiesPhilosophy. Psychology. ReligionBReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790Religion (General)BL1-50ENApproaching Religion, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Pandemic decolonisation Covid-19 capitalocene climate emergency postcolonial studies Philosophy. Psychology. Religion B Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790 Religion (General) BL1-50 Rebecca Duncan Johan Höglund Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic
description	At its inception, the COVID-19 pandemic was described as something inherently new, capable of crossing and erasing the economic, racial, gendered, and religious divides that stratify societies around the world. However, the ongoing pandemic is not new or egalitarian, but fuelled by, and fuelling, crises already under way on a global scale. In this article we examine on the one hand the relationship between the pandemic and still-active formations of racialised and gendered power, and on the other the pandemic's inextricability from a dispersed and uneven planetary emergency. As the environmental historian Jason W. Moore notes, this emergency disproportionately affects ‘women, people of colour and (neo)colonial populations’ (2019: 54), and the effects of COVID-19 are similarly unevenly allocated.
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Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic

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