HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2024

EUROSICK · Europe, Covid Politics and the (Un)Expected Surge of Nationalistic Narratives

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 95 880 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Националистическите разкази по време на пандемията от Ковид-19, като затварянето на граници пред определени националности, се анализират в този проект. Разбирането на тези процеси помага за по-доброто управление на бъдещи кризи в общественото здраве.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Europe, Covid Politics and the (Un)Expected Surge of Nationalistic Narratives

More than being turning points in history, crises are moments of acceleration of processes that are already in place. The Covid-19 pandemic, as one such crisis, triggered and exacerbated conversations about who belongs and who does not within different European nation states, whose lives should be protected, to the detriment of whom and to what cost. In the face of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the unity of the European Union, at least at the beginning of the crisis, started to crumble. Nation states reappeared as the main actors, and nationalistic responses spread in Europe. European countries closed their borders to other nationalities and government after government resorted to war metaphors, in some cases even granting the military a visible role in the management and communication of the crisis. Mobility restrictions became a powerful tool for discrimination when their primary target was nationals of particular countries, regardless of their presence in the contaminated areas. But what can we learn from the handling of Covid-9 crisis to better manage future crisis? These initial policies and measures, and the later vaccine-related management of the pandemic, showed the role nationalism plays in the context of public health responses to emergencies.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

In the face of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the unity of the European Union, at least at the beginning of the crisis, started to crumble. By closing their borders and introducing a travel ban for the Schengen Area, European countries have retreated into national fortresses. These initial policies and the recent vaccine-related management of the pandemic shows the role nationalism plays in the context of public health responses to emergencies, including evacuations and quarantines, travel and socio-cultural constraints. While many scholars have started to document the impact of these measures on citizens, human rights, migrants, and so on, almost no attention has been paid 1) to examine and to compare configurations of different European national identities that were generated in the course of the management of the pandemic, and 2) to a sociohistorical perspective to investigate the possible links between those nationalistic and war-related discourse and the exclusionary and inefficient policies and practices that surge in Europe and beyond. Eurosick will innovatively conjoin the sociology of migration and nationalism with research on historical disasters to fill this gap. It will do so, benefitting from my expertise in the analysis of discourse-practice nexus, and through an examination of media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related policy documents in three European countries (Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland); and in three points in time: before the outbreak in Europe, at the time of the outbreak, and at the beginning of 2021 following the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination programmes. The analysis will be carried out using critical discourse analysis, an interdisciplinary approach used to study oral and textual discourses, which views language as a social practice. These learned lessons will impact the capacity of Europe to tackle the future crises in a more collective and efficient way.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenКоординаторБелгия