BIP! Finder - “No disease for the others”: How COVID-19 data can enact new and old alterities

2020 • “No disease for the others”: How COVID-19 data can enact new and old alterities

Authors: Pelizza, Annalisa

Venue: Big Data & Society

Type: Publication

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic invites a question about how long-standing narratives of alterity and current narratives of disease are entwined and re-enacted in the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this commentary, we discuss two related phenomena that, we argue, should be taken into account in answering this question. First, we address the diffusion of pseudoscientific accounts of minorities’ immunity to COVID-19. While apparently praising minorities’ biological resistance, such accounts rhetorically introduce a distinction between “Us” and “Them,�... (read more)

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1.43456775E-8 3.4863343E-9 14 13

/ Attention: 0 86

Topics: Epistemology

DOI: 10.1177/2053951720942542

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