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0282/2021 - The colonizationofepidemiologicalknowledge: a decolonialreadingofthecontemporaneityofthe COVID-19 pandemic
A colonização do saber epidemiológico: uma leitura decolonial da contemporaneidade da pandemia de COVID-19

Author:

• Gil Sevalho - Sevalho, G. - <gsev@terra.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1370-1856


Abstract:

The epistemological essay makes a critical relation between epidemiology and the COVID-19 pandemic as a social event. One explores Agamben’s philosophical reflection he defines contemporaries as the ones who are able to distance themselvestheir own time to see its dark side. Through the decolonial criticism, one questions about the “epidemiological transition” idea, with its transcendence in the “social determinants of health” theory, and the binarism of epidemiological variables as supports of the biomedical and quantitative structuring of risk factors epidemiology. The scientific presumption to dominate nature and the engendering of a linear and evolutionary historical time, beginning in western modernity, contextualizes the epistemicides of popular knowledge and the coloniality of epidemiological knowledge. One historicizes theoretical constitution of decolonial thought, pointing its greater critical potential to reveal the structural colonization of epidemiological knowledge.The post-pandemic future isconsideredandPrigogine’s bifurcation idea, elaborated by Sousa Santos, and Paulo Freire’s untested feasibility are related with time conception as creation and social transformation expectation. Against the neoliberal hegemony, one points out the need to construct a supportive and critical science, and the conviction that another world is possible.

Keywords:

epistemology; contemporaneity of the COVID-19 pandemic; epidemiologic transition, social determination of health and binarisms; decolonial criticism; coloniality of epidemiological knowledge.

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Sevalho, G.. The colonizationofepidemiologicalknowledge: a decolonialreadingofthecontemporaneityofthe COVID-19 pandemic. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Aug). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-colonizationofepidemiologicalknowledge-a-decolonialreadingofthecontemporaneityofthe-covid19-pandemic/18181?id=18181



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