Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic: On being in this together
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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Approaching religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-131 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
/ Social ecology
/ Inequality
/ Sex difference
/ Race
/ North-South conflict
/ Capitalism
/ Decolonisation
/ Climatic change
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TK Recent history ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Covid-19
B Decolonisation B capitalocene B Pandemic B climate emergency B Postcolonial Studies |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Approaching religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30664/ar.107743 |