Readings of the coloniality of power in the COVID-19 global dynamics: A brief reflection on Global South's socio-political locations

Soc Sci Humanit Open. 2021;4(1):100161. doi: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100161. Epub 2021 May 15.

Abstract

The article seeks to understand the position of Global South communities and ethnicities in contemporary global politics, using the COVID-19 crisis to illustrate and evidence the practical application of the decolonial theories. In two separate topics, it chronologically analyzes the racialization of the pandemics through the examples of the Asian and African (diasporic and continental) communities' respective homogenous stereotypes and their emergence between the outbreak of and attempted cure to the virus, comparing them to the ethno-racial categories historically attributed to the groups.

Keywords: African diaspora; Coronavirus; Decoloniality; Global South; Wet markets.