eprintid: 10157621
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datestamp: 2022-10-20 10:27:36
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creators_name: Phoenix, Ann
title: (Re)inspiring Narratives of Resistance: COVID-19, Racisms and Narratives of Hope
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divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: intersectionality; narratives; COVID-19; racialization/ethnicization; positioning; hope; resistance; intertextuality
note: © 2022 MDPI. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: In 2020, COVID-19 took many people by surprise, as did the intercontinental waves of protest triggered by the casual racist murder of George Floyd by a US policeman. The years of 2020 and 2021 will undoubtedly be remembered for massive, unexpected disruptions that require new social normalities to be negotiated. These social disruptions were triggered by unexpected viral pandemics and viral video footage. Yet they built on already existing, entrenched inequities marked by the intersections of racialisation/ethnicisation, social class and gender. It was common, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, for politicians and commentators to espouse a narrative that COVID-19 “does not discriminate”. This is, of course, true. However, the research analyses that followed showed that both COVID-19, and the measures taken to arrest it, exacerbated already existing social inequalities. This paper draws on two narratives of the racialized impact of COVID-19 to examine the ways in which the authors mobilise intertextual narratives to protest against racism and call for resistance to the racisms they identify. The paper argues that, while the authors do not overtly position themselves as calling for change, their narratives are crafted in ways that resist current constructions of their racialized or religious groups.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: MDPI AG
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100470
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1982213
doi: 10.3390/socsci11100470
lyricists_name: Phoenix, Ann
lyricists_id: AAPHO81
actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian
actors_id: DKALI47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Social Sciences
volume: 11
number: 10
pagerange: 470-470
citation:        Phoenix, Ann;      (2022)    (Re)inspiring Narratives of Resistance: COVID-19, Racisms and Narratives of Hope.                   Social Sciences , 11  (10)   p. 470.    10.3390/socsci11100470 <https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100470>.       Green open access   
 
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