Risk and biopolitics: requiem for a pandemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v24.66579Keywords:
Biopolítica. Percepción del Riesgo. Securitización. Necroliberalismo. COVID-19.Abstract
The social perception of contagion-related risk, the construction of the other as a threat, and the social experience of public space during
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic stem from specific
epidemiological elements, including the high contrast between the relatively low mortality rate due to infection and the explosive viral transmissibility. Drawing on some elements of the social psychology of risk, it is argued that the media life of these factors places us in biopolitical coordinates similar to those of the post-9/11 scenario, favoring the proliferation of overlaps, hybrids, and alternations between the neoliberal laissez faire and the punitive and hyper-security responses to the pandemic. As an alternative, the need to critically evaluate response policies in a transnational and radically inter-pandemic framework is argued.
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