'The filthy people': Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South-South migration.

IF 1.5 2区 社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779221092462
Macarena Bonhomme, Amaranta Alfaro
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Notions of 'race' and disease are deeply imbricated across the globe. This article explores the historical, complex entanglements between 'race', disease, and dirtiness in the multicultural Chilean context of Covid-19. We conducted a quantitative content analysis and a discourse analysis of online readers' comments (n = 1233) in a digital news platform surrounding a controversial news event to examine Chileans' cultural representations of Haitian migrants and explore online racism and anti-immigrant discourse. Drawing on a decolonial approach, we argue that Covid-19 as a crisis has been fabricated at the expense of a constructed 'other'. We show how colonial racist logics not only endure in digital spaces, but are made viral in new ways by representing Haitian migrants as 'filthy' and 'disease carriers'. We identified two contemporary forms of racism - online cultural racism and online aggressive racism - through which people construct imaginaries of racial superiority in digital spaces.

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“肮脏的人”:新冠肺炎期间南部移民背景下数字空间中的种族主义。
“种族”和疾病的概念在全球范围内根深蒂固。本文探讨了新冠肺炎多元文化背景下“种族”、疾病和肮脏之间的历史复杂纠缠。我们对网络读者的评论(n = 1233)在一个数字新闻平台上围绕一个有争议的新闻事件展开,以审视智利人对海地移民的文化表现,并探讨网络种族主义和反移民言论。根据非殖民化的方法,我们认为新冠肺炎作为一场危机是以牺牲构建的“他人”为代价捏造的。我们展示了殖民种族主义逻辑不仅在数字空间中持续存在,而且通过将海地移民描述为“肮脏”和“疾病携带者”,以新的方式传播开来。我们确定了两种当代形式的种族主义——网络文化种族主义和网络攻击性种族主义——人们通过这两种形式在数字空间中构建种族优越感的想象。
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期刊介绍: International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.
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