Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI)
This study investigates the definition of “vulnerability” in the visualisation and underpinning index of Stats SA’s South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI)’s data visualisation dashboard. The paper establishes definitions of vulnerability in relation to literature before COVID-19, resea...
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This study investigates the definition of “vulnerability” in the visualisation and underpinning index of Stats SA’s South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI)’s data visualisation dashboard. The paper establishes definitions of vulnerability in relation to literature before COVID-19, research in the time of the pandemic, and in relation to data visualisation. The discussion finds that while the pandemic is widely perceived as a “health crisis”, South African vulnerability to this pandemic is mostly constituted by factors that fall outside of normative “health” concerns – beyond “straightforward” medical, biological and epidemiological factors. Instead, South African vulnerability to COVID-19, and the “health” of its citizens in this context, are largely to be understood as systemic, socio-economic, and necropolitical conditions. It is found that these conditions have not been generated by the pandemic but have rather been exposed by it.
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| spelling | doaj-art-eafdeb1b7b23457fab7e6f7bc59099dd2025-01-20T08:42:45ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-12-0141210.36615/jcsa.v41i2.1422Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI)Marnell Kirsten0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4440-6403Marina Joubert1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-1796Senior lecturer at Red & Yellow Creative School of Business; Postgraduate student at Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch University This study investigates the definition of “vulnerability” in the visualisation and underpinning index of Stats SA’s South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI)’s data visualisation dashboard. The paper establishes definitions of vulnerability in relation to literature before COVID-19, research in the time of the pandemic, and in relation to data visualisation. The discussion finds that while the pandemic is widely perceived as a “health crisis”, South African vulnerability to this pandemic is mostly constituted by factors that fall outside of normative “health” concerns – beyond “straightforward” medical, biological and epidemiological factors. Instead, South African vulnerability to COVID-19, and the “health” of its citizens in this context, are largely to be understood as systemic, socio-economic, and necropolitical conditions. It is found that these conditions have not been generated by the pandemic but have rather been exposed by it. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1422Covid-19data visualisationvulnerabilitynecropoliticsprecaritypandemic |
| spellingShingle | Marnell Kirsten Marina Joubert Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) Communicare Covid-19 data visualisation vulnerability necropolitics precarity pandemic |
| title | Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) |
| title_full | Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) |
| title_fullStr | Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) |
| title_short | Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) |
| title_sort | visualising the vulnerable understanding vulnerability to covid 19 in relation to the south african covid 19 vulnerability index sa cvi |
| topic | Covid-19 data visualisation vulnerability necropolitics precarity pandemic |
| url | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1422 |
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