Governing humans and 'things': power and rule in Norway during the Covid-19 pandemic

Governing humans and 'things': power and rule in Norway during the Covid-19 pandemic

This text focuses on the mentalities and technologies of power employed by the Norwegian government as it attempts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Utilizing governmentality studies and a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I find life itself to be given primacy within a biopolitical problem space wher...

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Published in:Journal of political power Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 472 - 492
Main Author: Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Routledge 02-09-2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
actor-network
Biopolitics
Coercion
Coercivity
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Discourse analysis
Dominance
Foucault
Governmentality
Pandemics
Power
Primacy
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Summary:This text focuses on the mentalities and technologies of power employed by the Norwegian government as it attempts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Utilizing governmentality studies and a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I find life itself to be given primacy within a biopolitical problem space where the government seeks to contain the spread of Covid-19. The government primarily rationalizes its exercises of power in a liberal manner while employing a complex set of liberal and coercive technologies, which it channels towards both the human population, which serves as an object of administration, and Covid-19, which serves as an object of domination.
ISSN:2158-379X
2158-3803
DOI:10.1080/2158379X.2020.1870264