{"title":"Responses to Covid-19 as a form of ‘biopower’","authors":"Costas S. Constantinou","doi":"10.1080/03906701.2021.2000069","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic caused many countries to take strict measures in order to control the spread of the virus. Their goal was to protect the vulnerable groups and the health care systems from collapsing. This discussion article relies on opportunistic observations from several countries and Foucault’s theory of biopower to discuss that governments attempted to control Covid-19 by monitoring large numbers of people, and that this was achieved through the construction of discourse and technologies of domination. The article further discusses that people could be better empowered in order to participate more effectively in any attempts to further manage Covid-19 and that governments should self-evaluate their strategy for responding to future pandemics.","PeriodicalId":46079,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2021.2000069","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic caused many countries to take strict measures in order to control the spread of the virus. Their goal was to protect the vulnerable groups and the health care systems from collapsing. This discussion article relies on opportunistic observations from several countries and Foucault’s theory of biopower to discuss that governments attempted to control Covid-19 by monitoring large numbers of people, and that this was achieved through the construction of discourse and technologies of domination. The article further discusses that people could be better empowered in order to participate more effectively in any attempts to further manage Covid-19 and that governments should self-evaluate their strategy for responding to future pandemics.
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International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.
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