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Corona, Care, and Political Masculinity: Gender-Critical Perspectives on Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria
Corona, Sorge und politische Männlichkeit: Eine geschlechterkritische Perspektive auf das Regieren der COVID-19 Pandemie in Österreich
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Abstract The article departs from the contradiction that the importance of care for society was publicly acknowledged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic response of the Austrian government did not challenge the structurally devalued status of care. In order to sustain the hegemonic patriarchal-ca... mehr
The article departs from the contradiction that the importance of care for society was publicly acknowledged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic response of the Austrian government did not challenge the structurally devalued status of care. In order to sustain the hegemonic patriarchal-capitalist governance of care and social reproduction in the pandemic government actors had to reframe care. We investigate government discourses that normalised its careless crisis management and interrogate the role political masculinity and affects played therein. Based on our analysis of a set of selected press conferences held in March 2020, we find that a new mode of rational-affective political masculinity was constitutive of the political management of COVID-19 crisis. With help of this hybrid mode of masculinity, political actors reinterpreted care first and foremost as healthcare and caring for the economy, and as caring for the population in terms of biopolitics. At the same time, caring tasks in the 'private' sphere were left to the personal responsibility of individuals and families. In order to generate consent, political actors frequently invoked affects that pertained to risk and danger on the one hand and solidarity and responsibility on the other.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Österreich; Pflege; Reproduktion; Gesundheitspolitik; Krisenmanagement; politischer Akteur; Männlichkeit; Biopolitik; Hegemonie; Gender
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
rational-affective masculinity; reframing care; care for the economy; solidarity; nationality; Corona; COVID-19; global pandemic; biopolitics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 50-71
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4
Heftthema
Forum: Caring in Times of Global Pandemic
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)