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SUMMARY:Special issue: 'Understanding the Politics of Fear: COVID-19\, Crises and Democracy'
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:</strong><br><br>Understanding the Politics of Fear: COVID-19\, Crises and Democracy<br><em>Global Discourse</em>\, volume 11\, issue 1<br><br>Edited by&nbsp\;Prof Matthew Flinders\, President of the Political Studies Association\, Sheffield University\; Dr Dan Degerman\; and Dr&nbsp\;Matthew Johnson\, Lancaster University.<br><br><strong>Abstract</strong><br>The COVID-19 Pandemic has thrust the emotion of fear into the heart of political debate\, policy making\, public trust in&nbsp\;democracy and government messaging. This issue&rsquo\;s core assumption is that a focus on the concept of fear\, in general\, and one&nbsp\;that is attuned to the unfolding &lsquo\;politics of fear&rsquo\;\, in particular\, provides a powerful framework through which to assess some of&nbsp\;the challenges and opportunities posed by COVID-19.</p>\n<p>We take Judith Shklar&rsquo\;s assertion of fear as the driving principle of liberalism as an invitation to &lsquo\;think politically&rsquo\; with the aim&nbsp\;of exploring the political meanings and implications of fear in the context of the coronavirus crisis. While we actively encourage&nbsp\;engagement from a wide range of perspectives\, we suggest that there are at least five approaches that call for examination in the&nbsp\;present:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phillip Pettit and the place of &lsquo\;unpredictability&rsquo\; in liberalism\;</li>\n<li>Martha Nussbaum and fear as &lsquo\;(ir)rationality&rsquo\;\;</li>\n<li>Zygmunt Bauman on &lsquo\;liquidity&rsquo\; and fear\;</li>\n<li>Hannah Arendt and &lsquo\;autocratization&rsquo\; and\,</li>\n<li>Sarah Ahmed and the relationship between fear and inequality.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What do these approaches miss and\, more broadly\, what alternative yet analytically powerful approaches have been overlooked?&nbsp\;This issue seeks to explore the applications and implications of approaches such as these\, and more\, in order to enhance&nbsp\;understanding of politics &lsquo\;as theory&rsquo\; and politics &lsquo\;as practice&rsquo\; in times of pandemic. The issue will examine the following set of&nbsp\;questions and more:<br><br><strong>Theme 1: unpredictability and liberalism&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Normatively\, in what ways can the two accounts of negative liberty outlined by Pettit address politically unintentional&nbsp\;interference from human agents in transmitting the virus and the impact of non-human agents on conceptions of the&nbsp\;good?&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>In what ways should government respond to individuals who do not adapt their preferences to demonstrable threat?</li>\n<li>And\, from a view of statesmanship\, how should such people be treated when their views run counter to scientific&nbsp\;expertise and public health?</li>\n<li>Empirically\, how do conceptions of the good of those who do not fear threats like COVID-19 affect policy making?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Theme 2: fear as &lsquo\;(ir)rationality&rsquo\;</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does the proper political balance between too much fear and insufficient fear look like?</li>\n<li>Related to this\, to what extent should government exercise agency in light of expert guidance?</li>\n<li>What interests should be balanced when considering the impact of pandemic on non-health elements of people&rsquo\;s lives?</li>\n<li>Given that experts make reference to objective realities\, but disagree about the objective impact of policy\, are there&nbsp\;means of interrogating experts in terms of ideological commitments as well as instrumentally according to the accuracy of&nbsp\;claims?&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Theme 3: &lsquo\;liquidity&rsquo\; and fear</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can the accretion or sedimentation of fears be conceptualized or understood?</li>\n<li>In what ways do &lsquo\;derivative fears&rsquo\; affect different sections of society and what is the interplay between different forms of&nbsp\;fear that need to be considered alongside issues of (un)predictability and (ir)rationality?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Theme 4: &lsquo\;autocratization&rsquo\;</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will our present fears affect the decline of democratic traits?</li>\n<li>Must these fears necessarily hasten the decline\, or can they be directed towards reinforcing democratic institutions and&nbsp\;principles?</li>\n<li>What is the relationship between fear and trust in politics?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Theme 5: fear and inequality</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>What need might we have for fear once the crisis has passed in order to help fuel and guide political action to address&nbsp\;the institutional weaknesses\, socioeconomic inequalities\, and other issues that have exacerbated pandemic\, so that we do&nbsp\;not end up here once again?</li>\n<li>How can we understand how to sustain fear in government and among citizens in order to achieve those longer-term&nbsp\;ends?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Submission instructions and deadlines</strong><br>Abstracts of 400 words: 8th June 2020<br>Articles (solicited on the basis of review of abstracts): 1st October 2020<br>Publication: Early 2021<br><br> Please prepare your manuscript in accordance with the&nbsp\;Journal instructions for authors (<a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/global-discourse/instructions-for-authors">https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/global-discourse/instructions-for-authors</a>). Please submit all abstracts and articles&nbsp\;to Dan Degerman (<a href="mailto:ddegerman@hotmail.com">ddegerman@hotmail.com</a>).&nbsp\;We are happy to work with authors to overcome any difficulties with meeting the deadline. If you want to submit an abstract\, but&nbsp\;cannot do so by 8th June\, please contact us (<a href="mailto:ddegerman@hotmail.com">ddegerman@hotmail.com</a>) and we'll work with you.</p>
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