Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives

01.04.2021 bis 30.09.2022

This project’s key question asks for structures of coloniality inherent to COVID-19 narratives, and how they connect through biopolitical intervention to early colonial hispanophone and lusophone accounts of disease. As a key result, the project will provide a rich set of scientific data on biopolitical entanglements between early modern and contemporary language of pandemics. The key impact will be a profound historical understanding on COVID-19’s globalized, unequal knowledge-power, which further stimulates the transformation of the research field of early colonial disease, nudged by a dialogue with COVID-19’s biopolitical mechanisms.