The construction of emergency. Care, cure and control between disasters and forced migration in Italy

Silvia Pitzalis ()
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Silvia Pitzalis: Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Argomenti, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-30

Abstract: This paper proposes a preliminary reflection on the ways in which disasters and forced migrations are described and represented in the public discourse according to rhetorics that conceptualize them through the paradigm of emergency. At the institutional level they are faced by using the same dispositif, which, in the name of emergency and urgency, imposes, thanks to the principle of intervention, a system of coercive power based on cure, care and control. This approach produces serious consequences from a social, cultural and political point of view.

Keywords: emergency; –; disaster; –; migration; –; public; discourse; –; media; –; institutions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 Z13 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.14276/1971-8357.1527

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