The Politics of Quarantine: The Political Implications of Negative Social Affects in the Early Stage of COVID-19 in South Korea

IF 0.3 4区社会学 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Korea Observer Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI:10.29152/koiks.2023.54.3.437

Jongwoo Kim, Jaejoon Lee

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Abstract

We analyze the interrelationships between quarantine-related events and negative social affects during COVID-19 in South Korea. We explain the impact of these relationships on the political nature of quarantine. We conducted a discourse analysis of YouTube comments posted on COVID-19-related videos during 2020. We analyzed these affects and their social and cognitive triggers using cognition-emotion theory and affect theory. Contingent COVID-19 outbreaks in South Korea and ambiguous information contributed to fear and anger. Social disgust combined with anger as mass infection events occurred over time, influencing the attitudes of South Korean citizens who support the country’s social distancing policy. We find that social disgust realized through exclusion and purification is associated with the politics of quarantine. Consequently, we show that the political disgust surrounding quarantine was embedded within social disgust. This study paves the path for further research on the governmentality of affects and mobility in the context of epidemics.

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隔离政治:新冠肺炎初期韩国负面社会影响的政治含义

我们分析了韩国COVID-19期间隔离相关事件与负面社会影响之间的相互关系。我们解释了这些关系对隔离的政治性质的影响。我们对2020年YouTube上有关新冠肺炎相关视频的评论进行了话语分析。我们运用认知-情绪理论和情感理论分析了这些影响及其社会和认知触发因素。韩国偶发的新冠疫情和模糊的信息助长了恐惧和愤怒。随着时间的推移，群体性感染事件不断发生，社会厌恶和愤怒交织在一起，影响着支持保持社会距离政策的韩国国民的态度。我们发现，通过排斥和净化实现的社会厌恶与隔离政治有关。因此，我们表明围绕隔离的政治厌恶嵌入在社会厌恶中。这项研究为进一步研究流行病背景下的影响和流动性治理铺平了道路。

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Korea Observer Multiple-

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0.70

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20.00%

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