Social distancing or distancing the social? A non-anthropocentric                     approach in anthropology

Terry, Cristian

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dc.creator	Terry, Cristian
dc.date	2021
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:00:24Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:00:24Z
dc.identifier	1415-8566
dc.identifier	https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70373188018
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/241414
dc.description	"Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), as well as contemporary ‘beyond the human’ anthropology, promote a non-anthropocentric approach to the social sciences, considering non-human entities as a part of the social world. From this non-anthropocentric approach, this article aims to challenge the use of ‘social distancing’ as an accurate term, the qualifer ‘social’ being associated to human beings only. If distancing is a key concept to prevent human-to-human COVID-19 transmission, it would be more accurate to talk about physical or bodily human distancing. By talking about social distancing, we are actually distancing the social, narrowing its complexity, as it is composed by entities that are not necessarily human or even visible to our eyes, such as the new coronavirus. This article is an invitation to look for alternative terms to the concept of ‘social distancing’ that enable us to better express the complexity of the social in a less anthropocentric way."
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidade Federal de Goiás
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=703
dc.rights	Sociedade e Cultura
dc.source	Sociedade e Cultura (Brasil) Vol.24
dc.subject	Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales)
dc.subject	19
dc.subject	Non
dc.subject	Auto
dc.subject	COVID
dc.subject	humans
dc.title	Social distancing or distancing the social? A non-anthropocentric approach in anthropology
dc.type	artículo científico