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- Title
Coronavirus Conjuncture: Nationalism and Pandemic States.
- Authors
James, Malcolm; Valluvan, Sivamohan
- Abstract
Writing from Britain in the month of May 2020, this essay draws the multiple and conflicting alignments of the Covid-19 moment into conjunctural relief. It seeks to understand how prominent trends of welfarism, collectivism and capitalism are being reorganised across a Left–Right spectrum and to specifically situate nationalism in this general political flux. Focusing on Britain, the essay will explore how an otherwise unsettled ruling Right is reviving a nationalist political imagination through a pandemic consciousness – with an emphasis on the politics of bordering, the spectre of China, reheated civic patriotism, a poetics of survival and melancholic whiteness. The essay will however also speculate about the limits to nationalism amid the imperatives of global pandemics.
- Subjects
CORONAVIRUS diseases; NATIONALISM -- Social aspects; PRIMORDIALISM; CAPITALISM; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology)
- Publication
Sociology, 2020, Vol 54, Issue 6, p1238
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038520969114