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

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  • Silvia Pitzalis

    (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)

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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.

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  • Silvia Pitzalis, 2018. "The construction of emergency. Care, cure and control between disasters and forced migration in Italy," Argomenti, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics, vol. 10(10), pages 1-30, May-Augus.
    • Handle: RePEc:urb:journl:v:10:y:2018:p:1-30
    DOI: 10.14276/1971-8357.1527
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    Keywords

    emergency – disaster – migration – public discourse – media – institutions.;

    JEL classification:

    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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