Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic.

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779211066328

Shani Orgad, Radha Sarma Hegde

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Abstract

National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articulating and reinforcing nationalism and neoliberalism. The campaigns frame the pandemic as a force that brings the nation together and conjure up notions of national 'solidarity lite' while relentlessly authorizing the crisis-ready responsible citizen. In so doing, they reproduce neoliberal rationality by shifting the locus of responsibility from the state and social structures to the individual and re-inscribing gendered and classed notions of responsibility, care and citizenship. Mobilizing national neoliberal narratives enables governments to render the pandemic legible as a crisis while obscuring both the structural injustices that exacerbate the crisis and the structural changes required to address it.

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做好危机准备的负责任的自己：新冠疫情的国家制作。

各国政府通过沟通在构建新冠肺炎疫情方面发挥了关键作用。根据对12个国家背景下新冠肺炎运动的主题、话语和视觉分析，我们展示了疫情如何为政府提供了表达和加强民族主义和新自由主义的独特条件。这些运动将疫情定义为一股将国家团结在一起的力量，唤起了国家“团结精英”的概念，同时无情地授权准备应对危机的负责任公民。在这样做的过程中，他们通过将责任的中心从国家和社会结构转移到个人身上，并重新书写责任、关怀和公民身份的性别和分类概念，再现了新自由主义理性。动员国家新自由主义叙事使各国政府能够将疫情视为一场危机，同时掩盖加剧危机的结构性不公正和应对危机所需的结构性变革。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.