Pandemics as Crisis Performance: How Populists Tried to Take Ownership of the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Title

Pandemics as Crisis Performance: How Populists Tried to Take Ownership of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Subject

pandemic
Covid-19
populism
crises
ontology
performance
politization

Description

With the Covid-19 pandemic dominating the agenda, it seems almostnatural that it be associated with another buzzword: populism. As thepandemic advances, it seems that the prediction of populism surviving thepandemic due to its own diversity has been proved right, given thevariation in responses by populists around the world. One commondenominator stands out though: populists across the political spectrumunderstood the benefits of performing the Covid-19 crisis as a tool tostrengthen their political positions. They tried to politicize the pandemic toincrease the antagonism between the people and the elites. In this article, Iintroduce the notion of crisis as both a construct and a performance, and asa useful concept to analyze populist reactions to the pandemic. I argue thatnotwithstanding the attempts to politicize the pandemic, the Covid-19 crisisended up imposing its own reality. In other words: the crisis could not beowned by politics.

Creator

Resende, Erica Simone Almeida

Source

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 147-157
2788-2993
2788-2985

Publisher

Institute of International Relations Prague

Date

2021-12-01

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Identifier

Citation

Erica Resende Simone Almeida, Pandemics as Crisis Performance: How Populists Tried to Take Ownership of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Institute of International Relations Prague, 2021, accessed November 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3500

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