COVID-19, Discipline and Blame

COVID-19, Discipline and Blame

Davide Casciano

The preventive measures implemented to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Italy involve the self-confinement of the population. At the same time, I argue, an ethos of self-discipline is promoted, leading to ambiguous results. Although the pandemic may allow some people to imagine a different future, others have perceived it as the beginning of a war, in which the most critical aspect becomes placing blame and punish the agents responsible for the contagion, the undisciplined ones who threaten social collectivity.

2020

10.5617/jea.7864

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology