From Venice to New Orleans: masks, carnival and a plague called covid

TY - CHAP

T1 - From Venice to New Orleans

T2 - masks, carnival and a plague called covid

AU - Brendtner, Fine

AU - Frazier, Denise

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - This chapter treats the history of wearing medical masks in public, the use of these masks in a carnivalesque fashion and the ascend of perhaps the most sinister version of it, that of the plague doctor, to a symbol of environmental and racial justice during the US “Summer of Racial Reckoning”; a series of protests that co-incited with the governmental covid lockdown. It further elucidates similarities between Venice and New Orleans as cities prone to coastal water hazards such as industrial pollution and erosion.

AB - This chapter treats the history of wearing medical masks in public, the use of these masks in a carnivalesque fashion and the ascend of perhaps the most sinister version of it, that of the plague doctor, to a symbol of environmental and racial justice during the US “Summer of Racial Reckoning”; a series of protests that co-incited with the governmental covid lockdown. It further elucidates similarities between Venice and New Orleans as cities prone to coastal water hazards such as industrial pollution and erosion.

KW - Political Ecology

KW - Coastal Waters

KW - Health Environment

KW - Carnival

KW - Masks

KW - Environmental Justice

KW - Racial Justice

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9791280930088

SP - 183

EP - 186

BT - Venice and the Anthropocene

PB - Wetlands Books

CY - Venice

ER -