Flores Sanchez José M, Kai Jade
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook New York USA.
Gend Work Organ. 2022 Oct 19. doi: 10.1111/gwao.12913.
Grounded in the historical conditions of epidemics intertwined with state power, we examine the factors that contribute to women of color's high proximity to contagion. We build on significant contributions to scholarship on the racial and sexual politics of work and the colonial history of contagion to argue that colonialism is key in the state's weaponization of illness against entire populations. This is crucial to decipher how women of color in feminized labor sectors, in our case, cleaning services and nursing, confront death during the COVID-19 pandemic. This transforms readers' understanding of governmentality within public health crizes and the roles of colonial state institutions in administering death in raced, gendered, and classed ways. We conclude that future studies focused on pandemics, labor, race, and gender must account for the ways in which colonialism positions feminized workers as fungible in structures of response to mass crizes.
基于疫情与国家权力相互交织的历史状况，我们考察了导致有色人种女性极易接触传染病的因素。我们借鉴了有关工作中的种族和性政治以及传染病殖民历史的学术研究的重要贡献，认为殖民主义是国家将疾病作为武器对付全体民众的关键所在。这对于解读在女性化劳动部门工作的有色人种女性，在我们的案例中即清洁服务和护理行业的女性，在新冠疫情期间如何面对死亡至关重要。这改变了读者对公共卫生危机中的治理以及殖民国家机构以种族、性别和阶级化方式管理死亡的角色的理解。我们得出结论，未来聚焦于疫情、劳动、种族和性别的研究必须考虑到殖民主义将女性化工人在应对大规模危机的结构中定位为可替代者的方式。
