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Catarina Kinnvall, svartvitt foto.

Catarina Kinnvall

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Catarina Kinnvall, svartvitt foto.

Covid-19 : crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives

Author

  • Catarina Kinnvall

Summary, in English

This short article discusses how different fantasy narratives have come together during the Covid-19 crisis in various far-right movements, parties and audiences across the world and how much of these fantasies rely on racialised and gendered notions of a fantastical world-order in which particular forms of emotional governance provide a relief and sense of security to certain societal groups. This involves a close engagement with crisis and crisis narratives in relation to ontological insecurity and anxiety; how such crisis narratives have materialised in fantasies related to borders and corona nationalism, and the emotional governance of these particular fantasies in the hands of populist leaders and their increasingly receptive audiences.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

156-163

Publication/Series

International Relations

Volume

37

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Media Studies

Keywords

  • anxiety
  • Covid-19
  • fantasy
  • ontological insecurity
  • populism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0047-1178