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.
Table of Content
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 Mc Afee
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
About the author
Matthew Flinders is Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield – the first research centre of its kind in the world. He is also Chair of the UK Political Studies Association and a member of the board of the Academy of Social Sciences. In recent years his research and writing have focused on (amongst other issues) the rise of anti-politics, the mental wellbeing of politicians and models of democracy. He has written and presented a number of documentaries for the BBC and frequently writes for newspapers, magazines and websites around the world and currently holds a Professorial Fellowship within the House of Commons.
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