The threat of thinking in threats
Reframing global health during and after Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22020146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Sondermann (University of Duisburg-Essen, corresponding author), Cornelia Ulbert (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 309-320 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2192-1741 • E-ISSN: 2524-6976 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s42597-020-00049-7 |
| PMID | 40477201 |
| OpenAlex | W3099443317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Narratives and metaphors shape how actors perceive the world around them and how policymakers frame the range of policy choices they think of as feasible. The metaphor of war and the narrative of how to tackle the unprecedented threat of COVID-19 are effective mechanisms to convey urgency. However, they also bear serious implications: Thinking in terms of health threats works with a logic of exceptionalism, which supports images of “us” vs. an “enemy” thereby shortening complex lines of causality and responsibility and privileging national answers. It fails to provide for a normative framework for drafting long-term systemic approaches. In this contribution, we critically engage with existing narratives of global health security and show how the logic of exceptionalism is limiting the current responses to the pandemic. We conceptualize an alternative narrative that is based on the logic of solidarity and argue that within this alternative framing a more sustainable and ultimately more just way of coping with infectious diseases will be possible
Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Metaphor · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
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How Dominant Narratives Rise and Fall
Disease in History
What contribution can International Relations make to the evolving global health agenda
HIV, Aids and security
From security to risk
The oversecuritization of global health
Human Development Report 1994
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |