The geography of the US’s mishandling of COVID‐19: A commentary on the politics of science in democracies
The geography of the US’s mishandling of COVID‐19: A commentary on the politics of science in democracies
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美国对 COVID-19 处理不当的地理：对民主国家科学政治的评论
DOI：
10.1111/geoj.12363
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发表时间：
2020
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Schrager Benjamin
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Schrager Benjamin;Schrager Benjamin
疫情期间，许多全球知名领导人和学者呼吁将科学置于政治之上。这篇评论认为，这种修辞危险地将科学和政治简单化，认为它们与民主和地理环境隔绝。来自科学和技术研究的共建理论揭示了这一流行病与其他民主威胁的地理交叉点，例如不平等和威权主义的加剧。由于COVID-19是未来政治的核心，地理学领域有助于将阻碍民主国家应对当前和未来危机的能力的问题趋势的重要性置于背景之中。
During the pandemic, many prominent global leaders and scholars have called for placing science above politics. This commentary argues that such rhetoric dangerously oversimplifies science and politics as insular from democracy and geographical context. The theory of co‐construction from science and technology studies reveals the pandemic’s geographic intersection with other threats to democracy, such as rising inequality and authoritarianism. Since COVID‐19 figures to be central to the politics of the future, the field of geography helps to contextualise the importance of problematic trends that hinder the capacity for democracies to respond to present and future crises.