The Racial Geographies of Covid-19

This article argues two things: the Covid-19 pandemic is, like many epidemics before it, characterized by a racialization of disease; that racialization has the effect of obfuscating the larger etiology of viruses, an etiology that is extended ecologically and includes the circuits of capital accumu...

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Autor principal:	Willem Schinkel
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Lenguaje:	EN IT
Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2021
Materias:	Covid-19 pandemic racialization race capitalism epidemiology Arts in general NX1-820
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:95924de0bcef47d68c27c04e3ec18ad02021-12-02T10:08:14ZThe Racial Geographies of Covid-192532-64572611-934Xhttps://doaj.org/article/95924de0bcef47d68c27c04e3ec18ad02021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/2334https://doaj.org/toc/2532-6457https://doaj.org/toc/2611-934XThis article argues two things: the Covid-19 pandemic is, like many epidemics before it, characterized by a racialization of disease; that racialization has the effect of obfuscating the larger etiology of viruses, an etiology that is extended ecologically and includes the circuits of capital accumulation. As I seek to show, these two points become apparent in the ways of publicly imagining and narrating the pandemic, which includes the modes of knowledge of virology and epidemiology. Knowledge of the smallest particles, of germs, is bound up in politically urgent ways with racialized conceptions of much larger geopolitical units.Willem SchinkelRosenberg & SellierarticleCovid-19pandemicracializationracecapitalismepidemiologyArts in generalNX1-820ENITArdeth, Vol 8, Pp 97-113 (2021)
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description	This article argues two things: the Covid-19 pandemic is, like many epidemics before it, characterized by a racialization of disease; that racialization has the effect of obfuscating the larger etiology of viruses, an etiology that is extended ecologically and includes the circuits of capital accumulation. As I seek to show, these two points become apparent in the ways of publicly imagining and narrating the pandemic, which includes the modes of knowledge of virology and epidemiology. Knowledge of the smallest particles, of germs, is bound up in politically urgent ways with racialized conceptions of much larger geopolitical units.
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The Racial Geographies of Covid-19

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