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POLİTİK EKOLOJİ PERSPEKTİFİNDEN COVID-19 SALGINI
COVID-19 PANDEMIC FROM POLITICAL ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Cihan Kaymaz
Subject(s): Public Administration, Political Ecology, Present Times (2010 - today), Sociology of Politics
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: Political ecology; ecological problems; covid-19 (new coronavirus);

Summary/Abstract: Pandemics had social-political characteristics beyond being the subject of medical treatment in history. In the past few centuries, under the influence of modern medicine, perspectives on pandemics have changed. For the last year, the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemia, which has been at the top of the world agenda, has brought the changing daily life relations due to temporal and spatial change confronted with an unprecedented global problem. Considering that humanity first encountered such a global pandemic, theoretical and practical evaluations were made in various fields regarding the process of pandemia of the COVID-19, Soon to be discovered and explained in time. Most of these evaluations prefer to explain the pandemia in pieces. However, holistic evaluations are needed against the problems that have affected every part of daily life. This study, which aims to make holistic evaluations within the scope of the necessity of such a need, focuses on the COVID19 pandemic with a political ecology perspective using the "grounded theory" method, one of the qualitative research techniques; It deals with the social-political aspects of the pandemic within the framework of theoretical and practical, historical and temporal integrity according to the relations between human and nature. The study tries to bring developments that may contribute to the understanding of what happened during the pandemic process, and can draw various conclusions about the unknowns waiting to be discovered after the pandemic.

  • Issue Year: 12/2021
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 509-531
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Turkish