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Introduction: Toward a New Politics of Fear
Matthew Flinders, Dan Degerman and Matthew Johnson 1
- 1Crisis Communication and Crisis Management During COVID-19
Ruth Wodak 14
- 2Nozick, the Pandemic and Fear: A Contractualist Justification of the COVID-19 Lockdown
Elias Moser 43
- 3The Pandemic, Freedom and Fear: A Reply to Moser
Peter Jones 65
- 4Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right
Claudia Leeb 81
- 5A Reply to Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right by Claudia Leeb
Noëlle McAfee 102
- 6Politics 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 and Ana Beatriz Amparo 106
- 7‘Fora, Bolsonaro genocida!’: COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Neo-Nationalism and Neoliberal Necropolitics in Brazil. A Reply to Kalil et al
Rodrigo Borba 125
- 8Fear and the Importance of Race-Based Data in COVID-19 Policy Implementation
Leland Harper 131
- 9The Collective Disorientation of the COVID-19 Crisis
Pablo Fernández Velasco, Bastien Perroy and Roberto Casati 140
- 10
Disorientation, Distrust and the Pandemic: A Reply to Fernández Velasco et al Matthew Ratcliffe 165
- 11Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation: A Reply to Fernández Velasco, Perroy and Casati
Marcella Schmidt Di Friedberg 169
- 12Obedience in Times of COVID-19 Pandemics: A Renewed Governmentality of Unease?
Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild and Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz 173
- 13What Is the New Governmentality of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Reply to Bigo et al
Kaspar Villadsen 195
- 14Lockdown: A Case Study in How to Lose Trust and Undermine Compliance
Paul Faulkner 202
- 15Lockdown, Breakdown and Trust: A Reply to Paul Faulkner
Philip Pettit 224
- 16Fear, Pathogens and Political Order
Richard Ned Lebow 233
Index 256
Ana Beatriz Amparo, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Wiverson Azarias, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Didier Bigo is Professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France.
Rodrigo Borba is Professor of English language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio, Brazil.
Roberto Casati is Director at Institut Jean-Nicod, France.
Sofia Cherto Silveira, School of Sociology and Politics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Dan Degerman is AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK.
Paul Faulkner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Pablo Fernández Velasco is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of York.
Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Elspeth Guild is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Leland Harper is Associate Professor of Race, Justice and Equality Studies at Siena Heights University, USA.
Matthew Johnson is Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University, UK.
Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at Newcastle University, UK. Álex Kalil is a post-graduate student at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Isabela Kalil is Professor at the School of Sociology and Politics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz is Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, UK.
Richard ‘Ned’ Lebow is Professor Emeritus of International Political Theory at King’s College London, UK.
Claudia Leeb is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Washington State University, USA.
Noëlle McAfee is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, USA.
Elias Moser is Post-doctoral Research Assistant at Karl Franzens University at the Institute of Philosophy, Austria.
João Vicente Pereira is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastien Perroy is Researcher at Institut Jean-Nicod, France.
Philip Pettit is Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, USA.
Weslei Pinheiro is a post-graduate student at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Matthew Ratcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK.
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg is Professor of Geography at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Kaspar Villadsen is Professor of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Ruth Wodak is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK.
This volume is a collection of articles previously published as a Special Issue of Global Discourse, April 2021, Volume 11: Issue 3. Only minor modifications have been made prior to publication in book form.
