Sánchez Liliana, Koulidobrova Helen
University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, 601 S. Morgan St., 1722 UH Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
Central Connecticut State University, Department of English, Willard 404-06 1615 Stanley St., New Britain, CT, 06050, USA.
Ampersand (Oxford). 2023;10:100118. doi: 10.1016/j.amper.2023.100118. Epub 2023 Apr 18.
When the COVID (SARS-V2) pandemic swept across the world, it impacted Indigenous communities more than others. This is due to a variety of reasons: socioeconomic injustice and racialization, lack of access to equitable healthcare, and linguistic discrimination. As a result, several communities and community types demonstrated this effect when perceptions of inferences or other COVID-related information were measured. This paper reports on a participatory collaborative study with two Indigenous communities in rural Peru-ten Quechua-speaking communities in Southern Cuzco and three Shipibo-speaking communities in Ucayali regions. We investigate the communities' level of preparedness for the crisis by eliciting answers based on the World Health Organization COVID 'MythBusters' in a form of a semi-structured interview. Interviews were transcribed, translated, and analyzed in search of the effect of three variables: gender (male/female), language group (Shipibo/Quechua), and proficiency in the Indigenous language (from 0 to 4). Data reveal that all three variables have some effect on the target comprehension of COVID-related messages. Additionally, we explore other possible explanations.
当新冠疫情（严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2）席卷全球时，它对原住民社区的影响比对其他群体的影响更大。这是由多种原因造成的：社会经济不公正和种族化、缺乏公平的医疗保健服务以及语言歧视。因此，在对关于推断或其他与新冠相关信息的认知进行衡量时，几个社区和社区类型都体现出了这种影响。本文报告了一项与秘鲁农村的两个原住民社区开展的参与式合作研究，这两个社区分别是位于库斯科南部的十个说盖丘亚语的社区以及乌卡亚利地区的三个说希皮博语的社区。我们通过以半结构化访谈的形式，根据世界卫生组织的新冠“谣言终结者”来获取答案，从而调查这些社区对危机的准备程度。访谈内容被转录、翻译并进行分析，以探寻三个变量的影响，这三个变量分别是性别（男/女）、语言群体（希皮博语/盖丘亚语）以及原住民语言熟练程度（从0到4）。数据显示，这三个变量都对与新冠相关信息的目标理解有一定影响。此外，我们还探究了其他可能的解释。
