COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear

Introduction: Fear – Then and Now – Dan Degerman, Matthew Flinders and Matthew Johnson

1. Crisis Communication and Crisis Management During COVID-19 – Ruth Wodak

2. Nozick, the Pandemic and Fear: A Contractualist Justification of the COVID-19 Lockdown – Elias Moser

3. The Pandemic, Freedom and Fear: A Reply to Moser – Peter Jones

4. Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right – Claudia Leeb

5. Beyond Tricks and Strategies: A Reply to Claudia Leeb – Noëlle McAfee

6. Politics of Fear in Brazil: Far-Right Conspiracy Theories on COVID-19 – Isabela Kalil, Sofia Cherto Silveira, Weslei Pinheiro, Álex Kalil, João Vicente Pereira, Wiverson Azarias, Ana Beatriz Amparo

7. COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Neo-Nationalism and Neoliberal Necropolitics in Brazil: Reply to Kalil et al – Rodrigo Borba

8. Fear and the Importance of Race-Based Data in COVID-19 Policy Implementation – Leland Harper

9. The Collective Disorientation of the COVID-19 Crisis – Pablo Fernández Velasco, Bastien Perroy, Roberto Casati

10. Disorientation, Distrust and the Pandemic: A Reply to Fernandez Velasco et al – Matthew Ratcliffe

11. Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation: A Reply to Fernández Velasco et al – Marcella Schmidt Di Friedberg

12. Obedience in Times of COVID-19 Pandemics: A Renewed Governmentality of Unease?

13. Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz

14. What Is the New Governmentality of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Reply to Bigo et al – Kaspar Villadsen

15. Lockdown: A Case Study in How To Lose Trust and Undermine Compliance – Paul Faulkner

16. Lockdown, Breakdown and Trust: A Reply to Faulkner – Philip Pettit

17. Fear, Pathogens and Political Order – Richard Ned Lebow