COVID-19 and the politics of fear:
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
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025) 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? -- Notes -- References -- 2 Nozick, the Pandemic and Fear: A Contractualist Justification of the COVID-19 Lockdown -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 4 Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 5 A Reply to Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right by Claudia Leeb -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 7 'Fora, Bolsonaro genocida!': COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Neo-Nationalism and Neoliberal Necropolitics in Brazil. A Reply to Kalil et al -- References -- 8 Fear and the Importance of Race-Based Data in COVID-19 Policy Implementation -- Notes -- References -- 9 The Collective Disorientation of the COVID-19 Crisis -- Introduction -- Disorientation(s) -- The case of temporal disorientation -- The many disorientations of the COVID-19 crisis -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 10 Disorientation, Distrust and the Pandemic: A Reply to Fernández Velasco et al -- References -- 11 Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation: A Reply to Fernández Velasco, Perroy and Casati -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 16 Fear, Pathogens and Political Order -- The problem -- Fright vs fear -- COVID-19 -- Procrastination, shifting responsibility, bolstering -- Fear, policy and agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
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