Disease and Disparities: The Structural Violence in the Time of Our Covidized Lives
The paper argues that when a country’s social structures— political, economic, and cultural—are arranged such that the arrangement results in a dichotomy between the class of the privileged and the class of the less privileged, any act of addressing a pandemic such as the COVID-19 will always end up...
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Archīum Ateneo
2024
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| Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol24/iss1/4 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1479/viewcontent/Budhi_2024.1_204_20Article_20__20Agcaoili.pdf |
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| Institution: | Ateneo De Manila University |
| Summary: | The paper argues that when a country’s social structures— political, economic, and cultural—are arranged such that the arrangement results in a dichotomy between the class of the privileged and the class of the less privileged, any act of addressing a pandemic such as the COVID-19 will always end up in another pandemic: the pandemic of government neglect and ineptitude. There is only one way out in ensuring that this double pandemic can be addressed: a return to the foundations of a good life for all—a democracy that secures that the good of collective life is for all. |
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