Does Lockdown Have an Ideology? An Approach to Dealing with the Covid-19 Public Health Crisis: Individualization, Control and Responsibility Exemptions

Authors

  • Joana Soto Merola Universitat de Lleida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2020.10.4

Keywords:

pandemic, Covid-19, public services, control society, capitalism, health, healthcare system

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to describe the symbolic mechanisms that the political and health authorities established during the first months of the pandemic. Under this purpose, an attempt will be made to decipher the discourses that hide behind the approach that health and political authorities have made of this crisis and what ideology is outlined behind the apparently neutral measures of deconfinement. Broadly speaking, the text indicates that the almost exclusive responsibility in the population forgets the competence that the institutions have over the public health system and, therefore, frees both the Generalitat and the Spanish State from their responsibilities.

 

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Published

2021-01-20

How to Cite

Soto Merola, J. (2021). Does Lockdown Have an Ideology? An Approach to Dealing with the Covid-19 Public Health Crisis: Individualization, Control and Responsibility Exemptions. Social Conflict Yearbook, (10). https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2020.10.4

Issue

No. 10

Section

COVID-19

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