Populist Discourses on COVID-19 in the Global South (POP-DISC)

南半球国家关于 COVID-19 的民粹主义话语 (POP-DISC)

• 批准号: 468150990
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Sandra Destradi
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: GIGA Institut für Asien-Studien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/468150990?language=en
• 关键词: Populist; Discourses; COVID; 19; Global

Populism appears to have substantial implications in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of undermining the fight against the pandemic through appeals to ‘common sense’ against ‘elitist’ expert knowledge, and with regards to a weakening of democratic institutions in the name of crisis management for the ‘people’ (‘pandemic backsliding’). In the deeply divided societies of several countries of the Global South, these effects of populism can be expected to be particularly detrimental. Yet, we actually see a high degree of variation in populists’ approaches to the pandemic.The proposed project (POP-DISC) aims to make a first contribution towards a theorization and systematic empirical analysis of the impact of populism in the context of COVID-19. It does so by focusing on populist discourses on the pandemic, asking the following questions: RQ1: Which narratives shape the official discourse on the pandemic in countries governed by populists?RQ2: How are these narratives received, reproduced or contested by the wider public, including on social media? The main assumption underlying POP-DISC is that the way in which governments communicate about the pandemic with the public plays a fundamental role in the implementation of policies aimed at limiting the spread of the virus. Convincingly framing state responses to COVID-19 as a common battle of the ‘people’ against the virus might help the implementation of such policies, while discrediting science would obviously undermine them (Lasco 2020; Painter and Qiu 2020). At the same time, populist discourses on the pandemic, for example entailing the stigmatization of minorities excluded from the ‘true people’, can exacerbate societal divisions and underscore ‘pandemic backsliding’. If we want to understand the impact of populism in the context of COVID-19, we therefore need to study populist discourses on the pandemic in the first place.POP-DISC takes a theory-led explorative approach, assessing to what extent the constitutive elements of populism (anti-elitism and people-centrism, involving an often exclusionary definition of the ‘people’) are reflected in discourses on the pandemic. The empirical analysis will focus on five countries in different regions of the Global South with populist governments: Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico, and Turkey.POP-DISC will analyse both official government narratives on the pandemic as well as the reception, reproduction or contestation of such narratives among the larger public, with a particular focus on social media and chat apps. A team of local early career scholars in the five countries has been selected with the help of local partners. The team can start working on data collection and analysis (including in local languages) at short notice. Short-lived data from social media and chat apps need to be secured as the pandemic is ongoing, if we want to reconstruct the impact of populist discourse on the pandemic.

民粹主义似乎在199日大流行的背景下具有重大影响，这是在通过对“精英”专家知识的“常识”表现出“常识”而破坏了对大流行的斗争，以及以危机管理的名义削弱民主机构的“人”（“人民”的“ PANDEMAIC BACKEMACIGATION”）。在全球南方几个国家的深层社会中，人们可以预期这些对民粹主义的影响特别有害。然而，实际上，我们看到民粹主义者对大流行的方法的差异很大。拟议的项目（POP-DISC）旨在对在Covid-19的背景下对民粹主义的影响做出对理论化和系统的经验分析做出的首次贡献。这样做是通过关注大流行的民粹主义话语，提出以下问题：RQ1：哪些叙述塑造了由民粹主义者管理的国家对大流行的官方论述？RQ2：这些叙述如何受到更广泛的公众的收到，复制或争夺包括社交媒体在内的更广泛的公众？流行票据的主要假设是，政府与公众对大流行的交流方式在实施旨在限制病毒传播的政策中起着基本作用。令人信服的是国家对Covid-19作为“人民”与病毒的共同战斗的反应可能有助于实施此类政策，而抹黑科学显然会破坏它们（Lasco 2020； Painter and Qiu 2020）。同时，关于大流行的民粹主义话语，例如，将少数民族排除在“真正的人”之外的少数群体中，可能会加剧社会分裂，并强调“大流行后退”。因此，如果我们想了解Covid-19的背景下民粹主义的影响，那么我们就需要首先研究民粹主义的话语对大流行病。PopOp-Disc采取一种理论领导的探险家的方法，评估人们在何种程度上对民粹主义和人们居中的构成要素（反 - 居民和人们的中心主义涉及“常见的群众”的定义）。经验分析将集中于全球南部不同地区的五个国家，与民粹主义政府：巴西，印度，以色列，墨西哥和土耳其。Pop-Disc将分析有关大流行的官方政府叙述以及较大的公众的接收，复制或对此类叙述的范围，并特别关注社交媒体和聊天应用程序。在当地合作伙伴的帮助下，已选出了一支由五个国家的当地早期职业学者组成的团队。该团队可以在短时间开始研究数据收集和分析（包括本地语言）。如果我们想重建民粹主义话语对大流行的影响，则需要确保社交媒体和聊天应用程序的短暂数据和聊天应用程序的临时数据。