The Entangled Emergencies of COVID-19

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY
C. L. Decoteau
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Abstract

City of Chicago officials adopted a “racial equity” approach to mitigate the disproportionate racial impact of COVID-19, yet according to interviews with racially and socioeconomically marginalized Chicagoans, this approach failed to address core vulnerabilities associated with health, housing, mental health, and welfare. This article argues that COVID-19 represents and reifies the convergence of three sets of emergencies. First, federal and local governments governed through emergency, enacting temporally bounded governmental strategies that presumed scarcity, triaged care, and naturalized structural inequality by delinking the effects of racism from its causes. This response was spectacular and anticipatory—designed to safeguard the status quo until “normalcy” could be restored. This approach exacerbated two existing endemic emergencies: (1) the slow emergencies racially marginalized populations have faced for decades due to neoliberal restructuring and fragmented care infrastructure and (2) the sacrifice of lower-income frontline workers to premature death to safeguard the economy and protect the middle class.
COVID-19 的纠缠不清的紧急情况
芝加哥市官员采用了一种 "种族公平 "的方法来减轻 COVID-19 带来的不成比例的种族影响,然而根据对种族和社会经济边缘化的芝加哥人的访谈,这种方法未能解决与健康、住房、心理健康和福利相关的核心脆弱性。本文认为,COVID-19 代表了三组紧急事件的融合,并将其重新整合。首先,联邦和地方政府通过紧急事件进行治理,制定了有时间限制的政府策略,这些策略假定了稀缺性,对护理进行了分流,并通过将种族主义的影响与其原因脱钩,使结构性不平等自然化。这种应对措施既壮观又具有预见性,其目的是在 "正常状态 "恢复之前维持现状。这种方法加剧了两个现有的地方性紧急状况:(1)由于新自由主义的结构调整和支离破碎的医疗基础设施,种族边缘化人群几十年来一直面临着缓慢的紧急状况;(2)为了保障经济和保护中产阶级,低收入的一线工人过早死亡。
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Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory SOCIOLOGY-
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6.90
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期刊介绍: Published for the American Sociological Association, this important journal covers the full range of sociological theory - from ethnomethodology to world systems analysis, from commentaries on the classics to the latest cutting-edge ideas, and from re-examinations of neglected theorists to metatheoretical inquiries. Its themes and contributions are interdisciplinary, its orientation pluralistic, its pages open to commentary and debate. Renowned for publishing the best international research and scholarship, Sociological Theory is essential reading for sociologists and social theorists alike.
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