Antidemocratic and Exclusionary Practices: COVID-19 and the Continuum of Violence
| Autor: | Summer Forester, Cheryl O'Brien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Intersectionality
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Ableism Criminology Racism Gender Studies violence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine gender 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology feminist security studies Empirical evidence media_common Militarization 021110 strategic defence & security studies militarization Capitalism Democracy Scholarship Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Politics & Gender |
| ISSN: | 1743-9248 1743-923X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1743923x2000046x |
| Popis: | The global coronavirus pandemic has reified divisions, inequity, and injustices rooted in systems of domination such as racism, sexism, neoliberal capitalism, and ableism. Feminist scholars have theorized these interlocking systems of domination as the “continuum of violence.” Building on this scholarship, we conceptualize the U.S. response to and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic as reflective of the continuum of violence. We argue that crises like pandemics expose the antidemocratic and exclusionary practices inherent in this continuum, which is especially racialized and gendered. To support our argument, we provide empirical evidence of the continuum of violence in relation to COVID-19 vis-à-vis the interrelated issues of militarization and what feminists call “everyday security,” such as public health and gender-based violence. The continuum of violence contributes theoretically and practically to our understanding of how violence that the pandemic illuminates is embedded in broader systems of domination and exclusion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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