ABSTRACT

This article outlines an argument about the morbid character of racism in the time of COVID-19. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci's famous characterisation of the crisis as an ‘interregnum’ in which various ‘morbid phenomena’ appear, we suggest that one of the main underpinning logics of the current crisis could be thought of in terms of racist morbidities. Framing the article within Stuart Hall's reading of Gramsci and David Theo Goldberg's understanding of the postracial, we discuss two empirical cases: the disproportionate morbid effects of the pandemic on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) in the UK – that we name ‘political morbidities’, and the Moscow municipality's measures addressing migrant workers during the pandemic – that we name ‘socio-spatial morbidities’. The COVID-19 crisis, we conclude, seems to elicit racist morbidities in post-racial guises.

抽象的

本文概述了有关COVID-19时期种族主义病态特征的争论。借鉴安东尼奥·葛兰西（Antonio Gramsci）对危机的著名描述，即其中出现各种“病态现象”的“中间层”，我们建议可以从种族主义发病率的角度考虑当前危机的主要逻辑之一。在斯图尔特·霍尔（Stuart Hall）阅读葛兰西（Gramsci）和戴维·西奥·戈德伯格（David Theo Goldberg）对种族后的理解的框架内，我们讨论两个经验案例：大流行对英国黑人，亚洲人和少数民族（BAME）的病态影响不成比例，我们称之为“政治性”发病率”，以及莫斯科市针对大流行期间移民工人的措施-我们将其称为“社会空间发病率”。我们得出结论，COVID-19危机