The project aims at elucidating the (g)local configurations of the ways the dominant biomedical mobilization following the pandemic conjuncture is morphed into a biopolitical project. This will be achieved via methodologically focusing on a) the experiences of the elderly, biomedical staff, care workers and experts, and, b) the anthropological mapping of the formal state and biomedical discourses and practices as they construct life with/after COVID-19.
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The key challenge of this project is to unravel the relational attributes of what we see as the emergence of bio-responsibility and bio-care as central pillars of securing societal cohesion in life with/after COVID-19, through the prism of the elderly biosocial experience of the pandemic. This will be elaborated by tracing both biomedical and lay, “biological” and “social” articulations of the COVID-19 disease, in relation to the theoretical problematization of the distinction between the biological and the social in understanding and in monitoring the pandemic as a biosocial phenomenon.
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