Thread by @anthropomonde

Actually, this is not surprising once you've read Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom ethnographic account on WEF's role in globalizing risks and catastrophes roadmaps for public as well as private administrations

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Woops, posting it again.

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Basically, their ethnography is about mapping WEF's role in the global apparatus of governance, which includes both private and public oversight, although it is often done at the cost of basic democratic accountability.

What this means is that the WEF is at the forefront in both doing the job of mapping threats and risks, and in selecting "entrepreneurs", whether they be public or private, that understand these threats as opportunities in furnishing solution-based answers.

These answers proliferates over unfulfilled problems solved neither by the States, nor by the markets; "social entrepreneurship", as it is endorsed by the WEF, is a method that uses both for the sake of pushing innovative-entrepreneur leadership over problems and solutions

So what the WEF is doing here is basically opportunity-signaling for social entrepreneurs to do the job neither the markets nor the states seem to be willing to do. Now of course this move could actually profit social movements in favor of basic democratic accountability.

This is why #DavosStandard and #DavosSafe are actually important hashtags, although one has to be wary of social entrepreneur capture over such matters.

In France, they have been widely shared among the communities gathered around similar hashtags such as #AutodéfenseSanitaire and #OùEstLaGaucheSanitaire.

They gather #LongCovid patients organizations, immunocompromised, activists, and researchers, including this account.

Very few media outlets or politicians have been willing to give these movements a voice, since LongCovid and Covid spread remain, as it is in many other countries, a political taboo.

Laissez-faire has taken over public health institutions, who have given up their mandate.

Basic popular health rights, a conquest of centuries of fights against capitalist devastation all over the world, seem to have been given up by the institutional left. Yet, the devastation still quietly unfolds, right beneath our eyes.