COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear
Edited by Dan Degerman , Matthew Flinders and Matthew Johnson
ISBN
978-1529242881Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529242898Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529242898Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear
The COVID-19 pandemic thrust fear into the heart of political debate and policy making. In the wake of the pandemic, it is critical to clarify the role of fear in these processes to avoid repeating past mistakes and to learn crucial lessons for future crises.
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. Offering interdisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars in politics, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, the book enables a better understanding of post-pandemic politics for students, researchers and policy makers alike.
“A fascinating analysis of the politics of emotions, especially fear, and how it shaped responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, for better (health warnings) or worse (populism and conspiracy theories).” Andy Alaszewski, University of Kent
Dan Degerman is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
Matthew Johnson is Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University.
Introduction: Toward a New Politics of Fear – 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. A Reply to Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right by 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. ‘Fora, Bolsonaro genocida!’: COVID- 19 Conspiracy Theories, Neo- Nationalism and Neoliberal Necropolitics in Brazil. A 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, Perroy and Casati – Marcella Schmidt Di Friedberg
12. Obedience in Times of COVID-19 Pandemics: A Renewed Governmentality of Unease? - Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz
13. What Is the New Governmentality of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Reply to Bigo et al – Kaspar Villadsen
14. Lockdown: A Case Study in How To Lose Trust and Undermine Compliance – Paul Faulkner
15. Lockdown, Breakdown and Trust: A Reply to Paul Faulkner – Philip Pettit
17. Fear, Pathogens and Political Order – Richard Ned Lebow
