Chapter 2 Epidemics and subaltern classes

This chapter addresses the interpretations of the emerging social question in the field of post-revolutionary French liberalism. It focuses on the cholera outbreak of 1832 to describe how it fostered unprecedented and dramatic representations of urban pauperism chiefly marked by feelings of panic an...

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Autor principal: Tomasello, Federico
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description This chapter addresses the interpretations of the emerging social question in the field of post-revolutionary French liberalism. It focuses on the cholera outbreak of 1832 to describe how it fostered unprecedented and dramatic representations of urban pauperism chiefly marked by feelings of panic and distress with respect to the new “dangerous classes” brought into being by the Industrial Revolution. By analysing the pandemic crisis, the chapter shows that these subjects were initially perceived not merely as a different social class, but also – and especially – as a different “race,” according to a conception exemplified by the metaphor of “new barbarians” invading the manufacturing cities. Hence, the chapter retraces a transformation whereby these initial representations of the subaltern classes based on fear and exclusion gradually gave way to the rise of social research on the subaltern classes aimed at elaborating new welfare policies as risk reduction strategies. These initiatives of social investigation are described as marking the origins of the methods and epistemology of modern social sciences, which are the focus of the following chapter.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1220282025-06-24T06:38:43Z Chapter 2 Epidemics and subaltern classes Tomasello, Federico Louis Philippe, Reform Act, Saint-Simon, post-revolutionary France This chapter addresses the interpretations of the emerging social question in the field of post-revolutionary French liberalism. It focuses on the cholera outbreak of 1832 to describe how it fostered unprecedented and dramatic representations of urban pauperism chiefly marked by feelings of panic and distress with respect to the new “dangerous classes” brought into being by the Industrial Revolution. By analysing the pandemic crisis, the chapter shows that these subjects were initially perceived not merely as a different social class, but also – and especially – as a different “race,” according to a conception exemplified by the metaphor of “new barbarians” invading the manufacturing cities. Hence, the chapter retraces a transformation whereby these initial representations of the subaltern classes based on fear and exclusion gradually gave way to the rise of social research on the subaltern classes aimed at elaborating new welfare policies as risk reduction strategies. These initiatives of social investigation are described as marking the origins of the methods and epistemology of modern social sciences, which are the focus of the following chapter. 2023-11-17T09:16:03Z 2023-11-17T09:16:03Z 2023-09-04T07:47:06Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76118 9781032301143 9781032301150 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122028 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76118/1/9781003303497_10.4324_9781003303497-4.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76118/1/9781003303497_10.4324_9781003303497-4.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76118/1/9781003303497_10.4324_9781003303497-4.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003303497-4 10.4324/9781003303497-4 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Making of the Citizen-Worker Università degli Studi di Messina 40d418e2-fa9f-47a5-8bb1-d27ee209fd94 9781032301143 9781032301150 Routledge 22 open access
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