Who's afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
| Autor: | Janaina Pamplona da Costa, Jan Joseph, Paige Miller, Wesley Shrum, Ana Pandal de la Peza, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Abou Traore, Pablo Kreimer, Antony Palackal, John K. Aggrey, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, André Luiz Sica de Campos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Pneumonia Viral Criminology Global Health History and Philosophy of Science 0502 economics and business Pandemic 050602 political science & public administration Global health Humans Epidemics Pandemics Qualitative Research Information Age Zika Virus Infection Qualitative interviews 05 social sciences General Social Sciences COVID-19 Locative case Fear Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola 0506 political science Infectious disease (medical specialty) Coronavirus Infections Information Technology 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Social studies of science. 50(5) |
| ISSN: | 1460-3659 |
| Popis: | Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are ‘fire objects’, using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transforming spaces and humans into indeterminate dangers, alternating appearance and absence. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 had more complex impacts than the number of infections would suggest. We employ multi-sited qualitative interviews to argue that locative fear is the essence of modern global epidemics. In the discussion we contrast Ebola with both the Zika epidemic that followed and the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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