Contagion and pandemics: Chronicles of an apocalyptic disaster.

Authors

  • Maximiliano E. Korstanje International Research Commitee on Disasters, Bryant, Texas (EEUU)

Abstract

In order to expand the current understanding of risk and pandemics, the present paper focuses on the functioning of modernity and the shortage principle in generating risks. From an anthropological perspective, we widely examined the social relations in a process of tension produced by the advent of a new mortal virus. In spite of the sales, Contagion, from our mind, represents a discriminatory discourse that reinforces the Anglo-centrism proper of West as well as a new way of digesting the non-western other. Our thesis seems to be that the cultural
entertainment and fiction genre appeals emotionally to pre-established construes to trait the other as dangerous.

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Published

2014-11-09

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General

How to Cite

Korstanje, M. E. (2014). Contagion and pandemics: Chronicles of an apocalyptic disaster. Antropología Experimental, 12. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1867