COVID-19 from the margins: Crafting a (cosmopolitan) theory

Masiero, Silvia, Milan, Stefania and Trere, Emiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-4571 2021. COVID-19 from the margins: Crafting a (cosmopolitan) theory. Global Media Journal German Edition 11 (1) 10.22032/dbt.49163

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Abstract

Voicing systematically marginalised communities is a problem historically posed in the media and communications field, in terms of de-Westernisation and, more radically, cosmopolitanism. Such a problem has been magnified in the COVID-19 pandemic, with narratives from systematically devoicedcommunities – ranging from migrants to informal workers, ethnic minorities, economically poor people, and survivors of domestic violence – remaining untold. Recognising the need for a conceptual apparatus to voice the silenced narratives of the pandemic, this paper conducts two tasks: first, it crafts a theoretical apparatus of three devices (data at the margins; data poverty; and the datafication of anti-poverty programmes) to conceptualise COVID-19 stories from the margins. Second, it applies such a theoretical apparatus to a map of five problems (counting in the pandemic; new inequalities and vulnerabilities; datafied social protection; data injustices; solidarity and resistance from below) opened by discussion on COVID-19 from the margins. By doing so it offers a conceptual lens responding to the call for cosmopolitanism in media and communications, applying it to the study of COVID-19 narrations from the globe.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Journalism, Media and Culture
ISSN:	2196-4807
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 July 2021
Date of Acceptance:	5 July 2021
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2024 23:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142425

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