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Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse analysis of the Norwegian case.
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Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.) . Nov2023, Vol. 66 Issue 4, p357-371. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply discourse analysis to map the discursive struggle to define the quarantine hotel in Norway. The government and other key political actors channel a biopolitical discourse constituting the quarantine hotel as necessary to protect the Norwegian population from imported contagion. This discourse's meaning is contested by a juridical counter-discourse articulated by lawyers and travellers, which constitutes the quarantine hotel as imprisonment/internment and a breach of rights. Travellers tend to combine this with a biopolitical counter-discourse, dismissing the quarantine hotel's biopolitical properties, strengthening the juridical critique. These discourses are important resources in a transnational, ongoing struggle, where the prize is the legitimacy of the politics of Covid-19, and the very ordering of the post-pandemic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00016993
- Volume :
- 66
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 172849971
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136038