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I try to collect some articles that use a #postcolonial perspective to make sense of #coronavirus pandemic. I will add more later and I welcome anyone to add more articles.
First one: @GJosephRoche on sinophobia and colonial racism during the pandemic. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/02/17/the-epidemiology-of-sinophobia/
First one: @GJosephRoche on sinophobia and colonial racism during the pandemic. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/02/17/the-epidemiology-of-sinophobia/
Secondly @juergenzimmerer argues that virus-diseases were foundational to colonial globalization (in German). https://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/selbsttaeuschung-westlicher-gesellschaften-viren-standen-am-anfang-der-globalisierung-bisher-trafen-sie-meist-die-anderen/25696952.html
My own article argues that perceptions of China as an authoritarian or backward other made it likely for Europeans to underestimate the danger of Covid for themselves. https://discoversociety.org/2020/03/21/othering-the-virus/
This article uses othering in a metaphorical sense to argue that there was a wrong type of othering: Covid was seen as a foreign virus (= othering), but also as not different from the flu (= not othering). https://www.scu.edu/ethics-spotlight/covid-19/othering-bad-and-good-the-coronavirus/
I add more later (I do this when I take a break from home office work + baby sleeps, so I am a bit slow - feel free to add some more articles in comments)
Another one: An article on Coronavirus-denial which argues that, among other factors, a distinction between "the West and the Rest" has contributed to underestimating the Virus. (In general, @DiscoverSoc has many articles by sociologists on Covid). https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/02/corona-east-and-west-has-western-centrism-mitigated-against-our-well-being-in-the-uk/
