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COVID-19 and the politics of fear / edited by Dan Degerman, Matthew Flinders and Matthew Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global Discourse Series
- Global discourse
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book draws on case studies from across the world, including the UK, Turkey, Brazil and the US, to provide thought-provoking and practical insights into how fear and related emotions can shape politics under extraordinary and ordinary circumstances.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series page
- Covid-19 and the Politics of Fear
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- The political pathologization of fear
- Six propositions about the pandemic
- Chapter overview
- Notes
- References
- 1 Crisis Communication and Crisis Management During COVID-191
- The dread (and/or denial) of death
- Crisis and the emergence of fear
- Discourse, frame and legitimation
- The discourse-historical approach
- Framing and legitimising
- COVID-19 and renationalising tendencies
- Four frames and their legitimation
- The religious frame: legitimation qua moralisation
- A dialogic frame: legitimation qua rationalisation and authorisation
- Sweden's 'uniqueness': establishing and maintaining trust
- The 'war against the virus'
- Conclusion: lessons for the future?
- 2 Nozick, the Pandemic and Fear: A Contractualist Justification of the COVID-19 Lockdown
- A rights-based assessment
- Contractualist justification of policies
- Problems of a consequentialist approach
- The requirements of a contractualist justification
- Nozick's rights-based justification of restrictions
- Justification of government
- Prohibition
- Compensation
- Fear
- Justification of a lockdown
- Dimensions of fear within the account
- Irrational fear
- Blind fear
- Illiberal fear
- Concluding remarks
- 3 The Pandemic, Freedom and Fear: A Reply to Moser
- Nozick and Moser on fear and prohibition
- Compensation, fear and the reduction of risk
- Fear and the amplification of risk
- Difference and dissent
- The virus, rights violations and innocent threats
- 4 Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right
- Castrating conditions in capitalism.
- COVID-19 and castration anxiety
- The phallic little man: Trump and COVID-19
- Terror of the castrated man: Hofer and COVID-19
- Conclusion
- 5 A Reply to Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right by Claudia Leeb
- 6 Politics of Fear in Brazil: Far-Right Conspiracy Theories on COVID-19
- Fear, insecurity and neoliberalism in Brazil
- Methodology
- Conspiracy theories on COVID-19 in Brazil: the 'Chinese virus'
- Conspiracy theories on COVID-19 in Brazil: 'Chinese vaccine'
- Authoritarianism, surveillance and communism
- Sexuality, human experiments and genetic mutation
- Spreading diseases
- Abortion, contraception, population control and genocide
- Closing remarks
- Funding
- Acknowledgements
- 7 'Fora, Bolsonaro genocida!': COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Neo-Nationalism and Neoliberal Necropolitics in Brazil. A Reply to Kalil et al
- 8 Fear and the Importance of Race-Based Data in COVID-19 Policy Implementation
- 9 The Collective Disorientation of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Disorientation(s)
- The case of temporal disorientation
- The many disorientations of the COVID-19 crisis
- 10 Disorientation, Distrust and the Pandemic: A Reply to Fernández Velasco et al
- 11 Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation: A Reply to Fernández Velasco, Perroy and Casati
- 12 Obedience in Times of COVID-19 Pandemics: A Renewed Governmentality of Unease?
- Seeing COVID-19 as a state, a bureaucrat or someone possibly infected
- The state, invisible networks and the territorial trap
- A logic of suspicion
- Governing the self?
- Contact tracing and digital surveillance in Turkey and the UK: consequences for our future.
- Governmentality of unease at work: freedom of movement in the Schengen Area
- Conclusions
- 13 What Is the New Governmentality of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Reply to Bigo et al
- The fall back to sovereignty
- The relationship between medical expertise and politics
- The role of novel contact-tracing technologies
- 14 Lockdown: A Case Study in How to Lose Trust and Undermine Compliance
- Lockdown as a social coordination problem
- Reasons for cooperating 1: self-interest
- Reasons for cooperating 2: moral
- Lockdown compliance
- A loss of trust in government
- 15 Lockdown, Breakdown and Trust: A Reply to Paul Faulkner
- Setting the scene
- How far can rational choice theory go?
- Going beyond rational choice theory
- 16 Fear, Pathogens and Political Order
- The problem
- Fright vs fear
- COVID-19
- Procrastination, shifting responsibility, bolstering
- Fear, policy and agency
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781529242911
- 1529242916
- 9781529242898
- 1529242894
- 9781529242904
- 1529242908
- OCLC:
- 1446049211
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