Coronavirus, infrastructures and the sociotechnical (dis)entanglements in Brazil

Autor: Jean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel, Renzo Romano Taddei, Felipe Silva Figueiredo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Social Sciences and Humanities Open, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 100146- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2590-2911
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100146
Popis: The text provides an analysis of the disorganization of large sociotechnical networks and infrastructure in Brazil, due to the coronavirus epidemic. Special attention is paid to the entanglement of infrastructural networks, such as the health system and the electrical energy supply system in the country. The effects of COVID-19 in economic activities and in some key social dynamics cause disorganization in these and other sectors, in levels rarely seen, and in doing so provide evidence of how they are entangled. The concept of disentanglement is proposed, as a development of the widely employed concept of entanglement in the social sciences.
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