How Exclusionary Nationalism Has Made the World Socially Sicker from COVID-19
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Abstract COVID-19 struck a world already suffering under scourge – rash of right-wing populist, exclusionary nationalisms. Whether it is Donald Trump in the USA, Vladimir Putin Russia, Bolsonaro Brazil, Orbán Hungary, Modi India, past decade has witnessed rise leaders claiming nation for dominant ethnic groups, excluding and targeting minorities immigrants. In this article I argue that preexisting plague nationalism made pandemic more dangerous our body politics than might otherwise have been. Following from evolutionary tendency to associate foreigners with disease, all epidemics hold potential raise boundaries between ingroups outgroups scapegoat latter. Yet noxious seed division latent contagions flourished case COVID-19, as was planted fertile soil where countries, majority minority-group within were furrowed deep. delineate how through pandemic, right-wing, nationalist governments further exacerbated both these types us-them divides. concluding, however, point out line its well-known Janus nature, also played constructive role during pandemic.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nationalities papers
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0090-5992', '1465-3923']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.36