Contagions : nationalism, populism, and the pandemic at Europe’s edge / Josip Glaurdic and Christophe Lesschaeve

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaurdić, Josip, 1979- author.

Lesschaeve, Christophe, author.

Series:

Critical approaches to Southeast Europe

Critical approaches to Southeast Europe : a cross-disciplinary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--Balkan Peninsula.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Government policy--Balkan Peninsula.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Balkan Peninsula.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"Contagions: Nationalism, Populism, and the Pandemic at Europe’s Edge offers a sweeping account of how COVID-19 collided with the political fault lines of Southeast Europe. Drawing on original surveys and rich comparative analysis, the book reveals how the crisis interacted with the power of nationalism and populism—reshaping trust, compliance, conspiracy beliefs, economic grievances, and even the memory of the pandemic itself. From the early months of surprising effectiveness to the region’s descent into some of the world’s worst mortality outcomes, the study shows how political ideologies acted like contagions of their own, undermining collective resilience. Southeast Europe emerges here not as an anomaly, but as a diagnostic lens onto broader European and global patterns of crisis governance and democratic fragility. Accessible yet deeply grounded in evidence, this book speaks both to scholars and to readers seeking to understand how ideology shapes societies under strain"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : the pandemic of ideology

Before the storm : Southeast Europe on the eve of the pandemic

Descent into tragedy : tracing the pandemic in Southeast Europe

Liberty in lockdown : consent and contestation in the state of emergency

Going viral : conspiracy theories and their believers

The price of survival : economic strains and intergenerational divides

Moving the needle : the politics of vaccine hesitancy

After the curve : how the pandemic is remembered

Conclusion : ideologies in the time of contagion

From fieldwork to findings : the surveys and methods of this book

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Glaurdić, Josip, 1979- Contagions

ISBN:

9789048575817

9048575818

9789048575824

9048575826

OCLC:

1593514419

Publisher Number:

CIPO000437648

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access