Triage Culture
On Losing and (Re)Gaining Trust at the Time of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665725 |
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| Authors | Roberta Buiani (0000-0002-8589-2911, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 181-189 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-022 |
| OpenAlex | W3111457212 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
As businesses reopen following several months of lockdown, I can’t help but think of the way the pandemic has intensified and brought to the surface the persistence of inequalities. In this short essay I reflect on this persistence and on the tendency to treat them as special circumstances and as isolated news, when they are all the product of a culture based on triage, that is, a culture based on artificial scarcity that forces the most vulnerable to antagonize each other for survival. The loss/lack of trust in each other resulting from this condition has resulted in incalculable damage that even current solidarity gestures struggle to overcome
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Disease · Economics · Gesture · Medical emergency · Outbreak · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Public relations · Scarcity · Sociology · Solidarity · Triage · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Virology
| Highly cited | No |
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