A conversation about the state in pandemic times

Linda Berg, Erika Alm
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Established ideas about state responsibility and state violence are placed in a new light in times characterized as states of emergency. The following conversation addresses the role of the state in the safeguarding of public health, taking its departure in media debates and political debates about state responsibility in two countries that have been criticized for not taking strong enough measures to protect the very futuriority of the nation in times of a pandemic Sweden and Nicaragua. Both countries have been castigated for avoiding total lockdown and for having taken a passive approach to what Wendy Brown has called “the political management of the virus” (Brown 2020). At the same time, the rhetoric used to describe their respective strategies has differed vastly in dialogue we explore notions about governance, biopolitics and necropolitics as they are articulated and negotiated in national contexts that claim the label social democracies. One of the points of departure is that while the response to Covid-19 is often described in war metaphors, and hence as a state of emergency, the unjust and unequal distribution of life and death is by no means exceptional.
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关于大流行时期国家的对话
在以紧急状态为特征的时期,关于国家责任和国家暴力的既定观念被重新审视。以下对话涉及国家在保障公众健康方面的作用,从媒体辩论和关于国家责任的政治辩论中出发,这两个国家因在大流行时期没有采取足够强有力的措施来保护国家的未来而受到批评,瑞典和尼加拉瓜。这两个国家都因避免全面封锁和对温迪·布朗所说的“病毒的政治管理”采取被动态度而受到谴责(布朗2020年)。与此同时,用于描述他们各自战略的修辞在对话中有很大的不同,我们探讨了关于治理、生命政治和死亡政治的概念,因为它们是在声称社会民主的国家背景下阐述和谈判的。出发点之一是,虽然对Covid-19的应对经常被用战争隐喻来描述,因此是一种紧急状态,但生命和死亡的不公正和不平等分配绝不是例外。
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