@article{fdi:010086024,
  title = {{D}iscours radiophoniques, cartographies {\'e}pid{\'e}miques et repr{\'e}sentations locales de la {COVID}-19 en {G}uin{\'e}e},
  author = {{A}ttas, {F}anny and {K}eita-{D}iop, {M}. and {C}urtis, {M}. {Y}. and {L}e {M}arcis, {F}r{\'e}d{\'e}ric},
  editor = {},
  language = {{FRE}},
  abstract = {{I}f {COVID}-19 epidemics confirmed social sciences' interest for the study of social media ({L}ee {H}ugues et {P}ale, 2009) and infodemic ({V}osoughi et alii, 2018) in epidemic contexts, it also excluded a large part of the population still important in {A}frica from the production of knowledge: those who cannot access internet because of lack of connection and/or illiteracy. {T}his paper fills this gap by analyzing local representations of {COVID}-19, drawing on the longitudinal study of radiophonic discourses in national languages and face-to-face ethnography led by anthropologists among the population. {I}t examines how {COVID}-19 was appropriated and interpreted by {G}uinean population through the mobilization of epidemic, political and historic local experiences. {I}t also considers how the evolution of local representations of the pandemics, over time and over political and economic perturbations, illustrates a progressive cognitive and practical lack of public interest in the virus. {T}o do so, radio shows in national languages including participation from the public on {COVID}-19 topic were systematically recorded, transcribed and translated in {F}rench from {M}arch to {A}ugust 2021. {N}ational languages included sosoxui for {B}asse-{C}ote, pulaar for {M}oyenne {G}uinee, kissiye and kp epsilon l epsilon epsilon woo for the {F}orest region, and maninkakan for {H}aute-{G}uinee. {L}ong-term participant observation and face-to-face interviews were led in the cities of {C}onakry and {M}amou, and in the rural areas of {F}orecariah from {M}ay 2020 to {D}ecember 2021 among health professionals and general population. {T}hese data were analysed thematically and chronologically to examine how the epidemics was discussed and the restriction measures commented by the population through time. {F}rom {M}arch to {M}ay 2020, the massive diffusion of information about {COVID}-19, both at international and national level, led the {G}uinean to take ownership of the protection measures against the epidemic - the traumatic memory of {E}bola playing a major role. {H}owever, as the epidemic event merged with the 2020 controversial electoral process, local populations began to question the relevance of the epidemic management policies and restriction measures. {T}he reduced number of positive cases led to a trivialization of {COVID}-19 and to a rising popular resistance against restriction measures such as confinement and wearing a mask. {T}he virus appeared exogenous and concerning only national elites and populations of {N}orthern countries. {T}he representation of the epidemic, first powered by the trauma of {E}bola, rapidly turned to the register of coercion: now called the "{S}crewdriver epidemic", {COVID}-19 in {G}uinea appears for the local populations as the reproduction of the unequal relation binding them to their elites, as {G}uinea is bound to the rest of the world.},
  keywords = {{G}uinea ; {A}frica ; {COVID}-19 ; media ; representations ; epidemics ; radio ; infodemic ; ethnography ; {GUINEE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}space {P}olitique},
  numero = {44},
  pages = {10007 [25 ]},
  ISSN = {1958-5500},
  year = {2021},
  DOI = {10.4000/espacepolitique.10007},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086024},
}