Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IF 3.2 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Joshua Uyheng, Cristina Jayme Montiel, Enrikko Sibayan
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In this paper, we posit that the 'global' status of the pandemic is not an essentialized feature of the crisis, but a product of social construction by political leaders. More specifically, we examine how political leaders of a superpower and a peripheral nation produce the pandemic's globality through crisis geographies from above and below. Utilizing a mixed methods framework, we analyse public speeches by Donald Trump of the United States and Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines through a critical approach to text analytics. Quantitatively, we found that besides mentioning their own homelands, Western countries featured more prominently in Trump's speeches while Asian neighbours were more salient in Duterte's speeches during the pandemic. However, the United States and China were consistently the most central in the crisis geographies of the pandemic of both speakers. Qualitatively, we further characterized the discourses surrounding these global pronouncements as: (a) collective reflexive positioning on the world stage, (b) charting zones of hope and (c) scapegoating zones of blame. Taken together, implications of this work are discussed in terms of understanding pandemic leadership in national and international contexts, recognizing its negotiated embeddedness in global structural hierarchies and enhancing critical approaches to geopolitical psychology.

危机地理从上而下:在 COVID-19 大流行期间构建全球性。
在本文中,我们认为大流行病的 "全球 "地位并不是危机的本质特征,而是政治领导人进行社会建构的产物。更具体地说,我们研究了一个超级大国和一个边缘国家的政治领导人如何通过自上而下的危机地理学来制造大流行病的全球性。我们采用混合方法框架,通过文本分析的批判性方法分析了美国唐纳德-特朗普和菲律宾罗德里戈-杜特尔特的公开演讲。从数量上看,我们发现除了提到自己的祖国,西方国家在特朗普的演讲中占据了更突出的位置,而亚洲邻国在杜特尔特的演讲中则在大流行病期间占据了更突出的位置。然而,在两位发言人的大流行病危机地域中,美国和中国始终是最核心的。在定性方面,我们进一步将围绕这些全球声明的话语描述为(a) 在世界舞台上的集体反思性定位,(b) 描绘希望之区,(c) 将责任归咎于替罪羊之区。综上所述,我们讨论了这项工作在理解国家和国际背景下的流行病领导力、认识其在全球结构等级中的协商嵌入性以及加强地缘政治心理学的批判性方法等方面的意义。
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期刊介绍: The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.
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