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A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism
Drawing on the case of Wuhan, this article considers how nationalist discourses evolved in the Chinese context during the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a relational perspective to argue that, just as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed countries’ vulnerability to diverse forms of nationalism and the d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34092991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09736-5 |
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author | Yeophantong, Pichamon Shih, Chih-yu |
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description | Drawing on the case of Wuhan, this article considers how nationalist discourses evolved in the Chinese context during the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a relational perspective to argue that, just as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed countries’ vulnerability to diverse forms of nationalism and the danger that this presents, it also reveals an irony: how despite being treated as a ‘solution’ to the pandemic, nationalism can only exist and thrive insofar as its alter or Other—represented by the novel coronavirus itself and, for some countries, the ‘China threat’—also thrives. To prevent this from becoming a vicious cycle, the article contends that nationalism is no solution and that new thinking on coexistence is the vaccine needed for securing the post-COVID-19 world order. |
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spelling | pubmed-81673902021-06-01 A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism Yeophantong, Pichamon Shih, Chih-yu J Chin Polit Sci Research Article Drawing on the case of Wuhan, this article considers how nationalist discourses evolved in the Chinese context during the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a relational perspective to argue that, just as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed countries’ vulnerability to diverse forms of nationalism and the danger that this presents, it also reveals an irony: how despite being treated as a ‘solution’ to the pandemic, nationalism can only exist and thrive insofar as its alter or Other—represented by the novel coronavirus itself and, for some countries, the ‘China threat’—also thrives. To prevent this from becoming a vicious cycle, the article contends that nationalism is no solution and that new thinking on coexistence is the vaccine needed for securing the post-COVID-19 world order. Springer Netherlands 2021-06-01 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8167390/ /pubmed/34092991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09736-5 Text en © Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2021, corrected publication 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yeophantong, Pichamon Shih, Chih-yu A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title | A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title_full | A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title_fullStr | A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title_full_unstemmed | A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title_short | A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism |
title_sort | relational reflection on pandemic nationalism |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34092991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09736-5 |
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