Global Political Logics and Mainstream Discourses on Illness in the Declarations of the State of Exception in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of the USA, France, and Spain
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.During the Covid-19 pandemic, "states of exception" were declared, suspending rights to restore order. Analysis reveals these declarations reflect democracy's self-protective "autoimmune" nature and Western self/other dichotomies regarding illness.
Area Of Science
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Public Health
Background
- The Covid-19 pandemic prompted many nations to enact
- states of exception,
- legal mechanisms allowing extraordinary measures and rights suspension.
- These declarations are critical for understanding the interplay between global political ideologies and societal views on illness.
Purpose Of The Study
- To conduct a comparative textual analysis of states of exception in the USA, France, and Spain.
- To explore how political logics and discourses on illness are intertwined within these legal declarations.
- To examine the autoimmune character of democracy and Western epistemology's self/other dialectic in crisis response.
Main Methods
- Comparative textual analysis of legal declarations of states of exception.
- Qualitative analysis of political logics and discourses on illness within these texts.
- Examination of Western epistemological frameworks concerning self and other.
Main Results
- Declarations of states of exception instantiate democracy's "autoimmune" characteristic, where it attacks itself for self-preservation.
- Illness is framed as a threat to the self by an "other," necessitating a therapeutic triumph over this perceived other.
- A self/other dialectic, fundamental to Western epistemology, is evident in both political and health-related aspects of these declarations.
Conclusions
- States of exception during the Covid-19 pandemic reveal a deep-seated dialectic between self and other in Western thought.
- These legal texts reflect and reinforce dominant political and health-related logics, potentially shaping global human relationships negatively.
- The findings suggest a need to critically examine how crisis responses reinforce potentially harmful epistemological structures.
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