Zurück
Zurück
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Oliver Koenig
| Titel | Zooming in and out of pandemic safety measures – Inclusive takes on institutional coping and failure in times of polycrises |
| Typ | Vortrag (conference paper) |
| Texte | The COVID pandemic marked a felt threshold into the interconnected effects of the Anthropocene. Its immensity of impacts remaining hard to grasp in a time that cannot fully be perceived as post-pandemic. Such holds true for the pendulum like reversion of achievements made in the struggle for more inclusive systems. The research project “Cov_Enable: Reimagining Vulnerabilities in times of crisis” (FWF Project P 34641) has been tracking related developments. It aims to shed light on how conceptions of vulnerability are being reshaped and travel between the political-, organizational- and the individual level. In particular, we want to disentangle how (new) discourses and practice (formations) in the contexts of (inclusive) education and (supported) living are impacting children, youth and adults labelled as vulnerable and interrelations with ableist/healthist dynamics. This paper will focus on the impact of one of these travelling phenomena. 2022 marked the shift from a singular to Polycrises, in which’s wake the localization of responsibility to uphold protective measures relating to COVID has shifted from the collective to the individual realm while paradoxically political vulnerability discourses having moved from the “individual at risk” to the “vulnerability of systems”. Effects derived will be highlighted by zooming in and out of two vignettes. Vignette # 1 will offer an insight into two specific slots of time, one amidst roaring numbers of infections and accompanying measures, while the other explores sort of a post-pandemic view by stakeholders of different levels of school administration. Vignette # 2 will zoom into the organizational and discursive coping mechanisms of two highly distinct organizations – a sheltered housing provider and a disabled people led cooperative organizing individualized personal assistance schemes. Zooming out provides a magnifying lens in understanding the functioning principles of support paradigms and mirrors the societal shifts and dynamics in addressing issues of dis/ability. |
| Beteiligung | Koenig Oliver: Vortragende*r Michelle Proyer: Vortragende*r NNDR: Veranstalter*in |
