The Covid-19 outbreak is often associated with pollution and overexploitation of common global resources. Less attention, though with a few exceptions, has been paid to the social and human origins of the crisis. In fact, asymmetric power relations among social groups can determine the outbreak of crises and a reallocation of their related risks towards social and territorial peripheries. Research shows how the concept of epistemic injustice can take on systemic connotations, as the use of inappropriate or ineffective analytic tools can lead to practices that are perceived as just, effective, or efficient, but in fact lack these requirements. The negative impacts of such an eventuality would far outweigh the mitigating effect and magnitude of the ongoing redistribution processes and may fuel increasingly unequal power relations between insiders and outsiders. In this scenario, the re-discovery of an ethic of the common good is an essential element in the design and implementation of a collective way out of the crisis.
Covid-19 ed ingiustizie epistemiche: quali prospettive territoriali? / Salustri, Andrea. - In: DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI. - ISSN 2281-7549. - 2(2022), pp. 239-253.
Covid-19 ed ingiustizie epistemiche: quali prospettive territoriali?
Andrea Salustri
2022
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The Covid-19 outbreak is often associated with pollution and overexploitation of common global resources. Less attention, though with a few exceptions, has been paid to the social and human origins of the crisis. In fact, asymmetric power relations among social groups can determine the outbreak of crises and a reallocation of their related risks towards social and territorial peripheries. Research shows how the concept of epistemic injustice can take on systemic connotations, as the use of inappropriate or ineffective analytic tools can lead to practices that are perceived as just, effective, or efficient, but in fact lack these requirements. The negative impacts of such an eventuality would far outweigh the mitigating effect and magnitude of the ongoing redistribution processes and may fuel increasingly unequal power relations between insiders and outsiders. In this scenario, the re-discovery of an ethic of the common good is an essential element in the design and implementation of a collective way out of the crisis.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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