2021
DOI: 10.17157/mat.8.1.5104
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Covid-19 Temporalities: Ruptures of Everyday Life in Urban Burkina Faso

Abstract: Globalisation intensifies global interconnectedness; reorders time and space; and stretches social, political, and economic practices across boundaries. However, globalisation is not a linear process; it takes place in discrete phases of short and concentrated bursts. The COVID-19 pandemic is one such time-space burst, or ‘eruption’. In this paper, we focus on COVID-19 as an ‘emerging epidemic’ from the perspective of citizens in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest city in Burkina Faso. We explore how these cit… Show more

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“…Investigations into how pandemic information and knowledge arrive at, and are interpreted by, the community were achieved through enquiring into the perceptions and understandings of COVID-19 [59,63,65,66,68,72,76,78,81]. Information access and its effect on perception and experience were linked to education and geography, with educated, urban, younger populations having better access to technology and social media [64,65], yet the perceived or reported reliability of information sources was not described in depth.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Investigations into how pandemic information and knowledge arrive at, and are interpreted by, the community were achieved through enquiring into the perceptions and understandings of COVID-19 [59,63,65,66,68,72,76,78,81]. Information access and its effect on perception and experience were linked to education and geography, with educated, urban, younger populations having better access to technology and social media [64,65], yet the perceived or reported reliability of information sources was not described in depth.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Media-driven misinformation was amplified through collective xenophobia, as perceptions of COVID-19 carried by outsiders was a common theme, both in religious institutions in Indonesia and among the general population in India [78,82]. In Burkina Faso, despite the mass media focus on the Chinese origins of the pandemic, communities located the viral genesis squarely in Europe (France), referencing the "disease of the whites" associated with European wealth, thus distorting the understanding of the temporality and locality of the pandemic, with assignations distinct and separate from previous infectious disease outbreaks, such as Ebola [76]. Similarly, Ethiopians initially viewed the pandemic as a "white man's disease which struck the Western world due to immorality and sin" before the first COVID-19 case arrived [72].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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