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Kob, Julius (2020) Curating disaster : a way to turn science into action in times of the Corona pandemic. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13 (5). pp. 642-651. doi:10.1080/17530350.2020.1782968
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1782968
Abstract
To cure Covid-19 on a medical, political, economic, and societal level, there is a need to ‘curate’ between science and politics in such a way that decision-makers and societies can address the practical requirements at hand. This commentary introduces and discusses ‘curating’ as a socio-material practice mediating between science and decision-making. It reflects on the current Covid-19 pandemic and compares ‘curatorial’ aspects here to the field of natural catastrophe risk finance. As both areas try to manage disasters, the space between scientific knowledge and economic and/or political decision-making becomes a particularly important node. By employing a focus on catastrophe simulation modelling, this essay looks at several issues of the natural catastrophe field that may yield ways to deal with epidemic crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. This commentary suggests putting greater emphasis on (and encourages a research focus on) the ‘curation’ between science and politics to improve decision-making for socio-material disasters.
Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Cultural Economy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1753-0350 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 28 July 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 13 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 642-651 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17530350.2020.1782968 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Cultural Economy. Julius Kob (2020) Curating disaster: a way to turn science into action in times of the Corona pandemic, Journal of Cultural Economy, 13:5, 642-651, DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1782968. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
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