The Virus as Remedy : COVID-19 and the End of the Populist Meta-Crisis
| dc.contributor.author | Bitschnau, Marco | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-13T12:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-13T12:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Understood not only as a challenge to democracy but as a crisis, populism has received widespread attention in both media and academic circles for the better part of the past decade. Yet the outbreak of COVID-19 and its escalation into a pandemic eclipsed the fear of rising populism within weeks: With lockdowns imposed and civil liberties suspended, it lost its menacing character and became a mere background nuisance. This, I argue in this article, is the consequence of a discursive constellation in which there is only room for one dominant crisis – a meta-crisis as I call it – at a time. Populism filled this meta-crisis role for a long while, but the COVID-19 shock redirected society’s attention to a more pervasive and immediate threat. While this does not spell the end of populism, it still marks a notable shift in the relative importance we attribute to it. | |
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| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.subject | populism | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.subject | pandemic | |
| dc.subject | crisis | |
| dc.subject | meta-crisis | |
| dc.subject | crisis cycle | |
| dc.subject | perception | |
| dc.subject.ddc | 300 | |
| dc.title | The Virus as Remedy : COVID-19 and the End of the Populist Meta-Crisis | eng |
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