Studying COVID-19 in light of critical approaches to risk and uncertainty: research pathways, conceptual tools, and some magic from Mary Douglas

Brown, Patrick

doi:10.1080/13698575.2020.1745508

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“…Rather, homelessness during COVID-19 is represented as itself a threat to the health of the population; not because of the choices or pathologies of homeless individuals per se, but because their living conditions mean that they pose a particularly high risk of catching and spreading the disease. Homelessness is thus inserted into the broader biopolitical, and particularly epidemiological, calculations informing government responses to COVID-19, and the risk-based reasoning that underpins them (Brown, 2020).…”

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Understanding responses to homelessness during COVID-19: an examination of Australia

2020

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have spent unprecedented sums of money to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, often in underutilized hotels. This intervention contrasts with the policy stasis and "poverty of ambition" that characterized responses to rising homelessness over the past decade in countries such as Australia, the UK, the US, and much of Europe. This is a situation that has prevailed despite rigorous evidence on both the harms of homelessness and the ability of policy to address it. Using Australia as a case study, this policy review examines this sudden change in approach. After detailing various initiatives to respond to COVID-19, we show how these interventions are rationalized by the threat posed to people who are homeless, and the threat posed by homeless populationswho are at high risk of contracting and transmitting the disease-to the health of the non-homeless population. We discuss how these findings contribute to debates about how the framing of homelessness as a problem shapes policy.

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Understanding responses to homelessness during COVID-19: an examination of Australia

2020

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“…Additionally, when an issue is unexpected and unknown it may be anchored within a familiar context and related to more well-known phenomena as a guidance for action [16]. Thus, organizing different kinds of materials into narratives creates meaning and motivates action in certain directions [60]. Complex and multifarious phenomena are simplified and organized; certain aspects of them are selected and made central, whereas others are omitted or de-emphasized.…”

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COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses

2020

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Despite forces struggling to reduce global warming growing stronger, there has been mixed success in generating substantive policy implementation, while the global spread of the coronavirus has prompted strong and far-reaching governmental responses around the world. This paper addresses the complex and partly contradictory responses to these two crises, investigating their social anatomies. Using temporality, spatiality, and epistemic authority as the main conceptual vehicles, the two crises are systematically compared. Despite sharing a number of similarities, the most striking difference between the two crises is the urgency of action to counter the rapid spread of the pandemic as compared to the slow and meager action to mitigate longstanding, well-documented, and accelerating climate change. Although the tide now seems to have turned towards a quick and massive effort to restore the status quo—including attempts to restart the existing economic growth models, which imply an obvious risk for substantially increasing CO₂ emissions—the article finally points at some signs of an opening window of opportunity for green growth and degrowth initiatives. However, these signs have to be realistically interpreted in relation to the broader context of power relations in terms of governance configurations and regulatory strategies worldwide at different levels of society.

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“…El importante papel de los medios de comunicación convencionales en campañas de salud y en la crisis de la Covid-19 está suficientemente demostrado (Feo-Acevedo y Feo-Istúriz, 2013;Brown, 2020). También los medios digitales son considerados de gran utilidad: La Comisión Europea, en su recomendación adoptaba el 8 de abril de 2020, plantea la conveniencia de utilizar las redes sociales como canales de comunicación complementarios a medios tradicionales como la televisión y la prensa, los dos medios informativos de referencia en otras crisis sanitarias (en Costa-Sánchez y López-García, 2020).…”

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COVID-19 en la prensa española. Encuadres de alarma y tranquilidad en las portadas de El País, El Mundo y La Vanguardia.

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2020

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Se presenta un análisis de las noticias incluidas en portada por los tres medios más leídos en España (El país, El mundo y La vanguardia) durante el estado de alarma y la situación de confinamiento por la Covid-19 en los meses de marzo y abril de 2020. El principal objetivo del estudio es analizar si los citados medios han trasladado los hechos noticiosos a través de mensajes de alarma o de tranquilidad aparentemente injustificados. En la introducción se analiza el papel de los medios de comunicación convencionales, los medios digitales y las redes sociales en períodos de pandemia, así como los posibles marcos de interpretación (framing) en la cobertura de la crisis. Se han revisado 1.154 noticias de portada e identificado para el análisis 419 elementos, pertenecientes a 162 hechos noticiosos comunes, publicados al menos en dos de los tres diarios analizados que conforman la muestra de este estudio. El instrumento de análisis está basado en herramientas de medición de framing ya validadas y empleadas en numerosos artículos de referencia. Los resultados muestran que el tratamiento de la información en clave de alarma y tranquilidad no obedece tanto a la objetividad de los hechos noticiosos relatados ni a razones sanitarias, como a intereses políticos a favor o en contra del Gobierno u otros intereses. Se concluye que, dada la importancia de los medios de comunicación durante las pandemias, tanto en la creación de la realidad percibida como en la valoración de su gravedad, sus responsables deben ser conscientes de la responsabilidad social y función educativa de la comunicación. Para conseguir una información veraz y de servicio público se plantean como necesarias la independencia económica de los medios y la formación en educación mediática de sus profesionales.

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Studying COVID-19 in light of critical approaches to risk and uncertainty: research pathways, conceptual tools, and some magic from Mary Douglas

Cited by 108 publications

References 37 publications

Understanding responses to homelessness during COVID-19: an examination of Australia

Understanding responses to homelessness during COVID-19: an examination of Australia

COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses

COVID-19 en la prensa española. Encuadres de alarma y tranquilidad en las portadas de El País, El Mundo y La Vanguardia.

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