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Readings of the coloniality of power in the COVID-19 global dynamics: A brief reflection on Global South's socio-political locations

The article seeks to understand the position of Global South communities and ethnicities in contemporary global politics, using the COVID-19 crisis to illustrate and evidence the practical application of the decolonial theories. In two separate topics, it chronologically analyzes the racialization o...

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Autor principal: Gonçalves, Bruna A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34927058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100161
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spelling pubmed-86652072021-12-14 Readings of the coloniality of power in the COVID-19 global dynamics: A brief reflection on Global South's socio-political locations Gonçalves, Bruna A. Soc Sci Humanit Open Regular Article The article seeks to understand the position of Global South communities and ethnicities in contemporary global politics, using the COVID-19 crisis to illustrate and evidence the practical application of the decolonial theories. In two separate topics, it chronologically analyzes the racialization of the pandemics through the examples of the Asian and African (diasporic and continental) communities’ respective homogenous stereotypes and their emergence between the outbreak of and attempted cure to the virus, comparing them to the ethno-racial categories historically attributed to the groups. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8665207/ /pubmed/34927058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100161 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665207/
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