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ID191955
Title ProperAt war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19
LanguageENG
AuthorBaele, Stephane J ;  Rousseau, Elise
Summary / Abstract (Note)This paper offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the ways and extent to which the US president and UK prime minister have securitized the Covid-19 pandemic in their public speeches. This assessment rests on, and illustrates the merits of, both an overdue theoretical consolidation of Securitization Theory’s (ST) conceptualization of securitizing language, and a new methodological blueprint for the study of ‘securitizing semantic repertoire’. Comparing and contrasting the two leaders’ respective securitizing semantic repertoires adopted in the early months of the coronavirus outbreak shows that securitizing language, while very limited, has been more intense in the UK, whose repertoire was structured by a biopolitical imperative to ‘save lives’ in contrast to the US repertoire centred on the ‘war’ metaphor.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Relations Vol. 37, No.2; Jun 2023: p.201-227
Journal SourceInternational Relations Vol: 37 No 2
Key WordsLanguage ;  Securitization ;  Methods ;  Speeches ;  COVID-19 ;  Semantic Repertoire


 
 
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