The pandemic politics of existential anxiety
Between steadfast resistance and flexible resilience
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 6299581 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Uriel Abulof (0000-0002-5926-732X, Cornell University), Shirley Le Penne (Cornell University), Bonan Pu (0000-0002-5668-243X, Cornell University) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 42 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 350-366 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01925121211002098 |
| OpenAlex | W3153786381 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
| Referencias citadas | 41 |
We all know we will die, but not when and how. Can private death awareness become public, and what happens when it does? This mixed-method research on the Covid-19 crisis reveals how pandemic politics cultivates and uses mass existential anxiety. Analyzing global discourse across vast corpora, we reveal an exceptional rise in global ‘mortality salience’ (awareness of death), and trace the socio-political dynamics feeding it. Comparing governmental pandemic policies worldwide, we introduce a novel model discerning ‘mortality mitigation’ (coping mechanisms) on a scale from steadfast resistance (‘oak’) to flexible resilience (‘reed’). We find that political trust, high median age, and social anxiety predict a reedy approach; and that the oak, typically pushing for stricter measures, better mitigates mortality. Stringency itself, however, hardly affects Covid-related cases/deaths. We enrich our model with brief illustrations from five countries: China and Israel (both oaks), Sweden and Germany (reeds) and the USA (an oak–reed hybrid
Anxiety · Cognitive psychology · Coping (psychology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Death anxiety · Development economics · Disease · Economics · Existentialism · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Mortality salience · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Resistance (ecology · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Terror management theory · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,2 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 6 |