A pandemic is not a war: COVID‐19 urgent anthropological reflections

Archiving the Pandemic
Dossiers Temáticos

Archiving the Pandemic

Saber(com)vida

Saiba Varma

Social Anthropology

Overview

In this article, Saiba Varma reflects on the metaphors that occupied the information space and the social space during the COVID-19 pandemic. The metaphors of 'war', 'curfews', 'state of emergency', impose urgency, militarize daily life, medicine and care, in a supposed unity of group against an invisible and viral 'enemy' that, however, makes invisible the social disparities and inequalities that weaken and endanger certain segments of a population.
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