Plus ça change? The Covid-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21148733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andy Alaszewski (0000-0001-6312-7306, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 289-303 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Risk & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8575 • E-ISSN: 1469-8331 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698575.2021.2016656 |
| OpenAlex | W4205214549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
On 30 December 2019, Dr Marjorie Pollack, deputy editor of ProMed, received information about a SARS-like disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Having checked the facts, she issued an alert to the worldwide network signalling the start of an outbreak of a highly infectious and dangerous disease. The new virus, SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly from Wuhan causing a global pandemic of COVID-19. In this review, I examine the ways in which risk can provide insights into and an understanding of the social and cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. I draw on three major theories that highlight the role of risk in contemporary societies: Beck and Giddens’s analysis of late modern society as risk society; Douglas’s analysis of the continuing significance of cultural theory in understanding the construction and use of risk to address social tensions and challenges; and Foucault’s analysis of governmentality and the use of discourses such as risk as a form of power and control
Criminology · Development economics · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Governmentality · Michel foucault · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Risk society · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Risk Perception and Management
The foundations of influencing policy and practice
The pandemic body
‘Assessing my risk and that of my whānau is my right’
Risk individualisation and moral injury in the treatment of infection as impediments to the tackling of antimicrobial resistance
The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in Covid-19 health risk governance
Recalibrating temporalities of risk
Risk and responsibility
Reassessing social trust
Vigilance in infectious disease emergencies
Purity and Danger
Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic
Modernity and self-identity
Technologies of the Self
Implementing psychiatry as risk management
Performing prevention
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis
On knowing and believing
Prediabetic categorisation
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Discipline and punishment
The Populist Challenge
Employment, Individualization and Insecurity
Madness and Civilization
Witchcraft and Leprosy
Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation
The rise of surveillance medicine
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |