Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship

Autores
Méndez, Pablo Martín
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
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Descripción
Grounded in a will to adapt to dangers, and espouse both responsibility and resilience, voluntary measures have largely replaced one of the oldest public health strategies, quarantine. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, elicited a broad sweep of tactics from the archive of public health armoury. On a general level, this review essay addresses the common measures rolled out by various authorities against the pandemic - the lock-downs, reopening process, financial support and vaccination. By relating these measures to 1) the "plague-stricken town", deployed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe by the Polizeistaat; 2) the "self-regulation strategy" that emerged with liberal ideas at the end of the eighteenth century; and 3) the "minimum security" programmed by neoliberal governmentality in the second half of the twentieth century, it is suggested that tensions between freedom and security during, and after, the pandemic can be better understood. To end, the essay noticed that the pandemic has enforced tensions in the administration and calibration of individual wishes and collective wellbeing, creating a fragile “freedom-security relationship” and new problem space for self-regulation.
Fil: Méndez, Pablo Martín. Universidad Nacional de Lanus. Rectorado. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnica. Instituto de Cultura y Comunicacion.; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Lanus. Departamento de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina
Materia
COVID-19
LOCKDOWN
SELF-REGULATION
LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY
FREEDOM-SECURITY
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title Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
spellingShingle Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
Méndez, Pablo Martín
COVID-19
LOCKDOWN
SELF-REGULATION
LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY
FREEDOM-SECURITY
title_short Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
title_full Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
title_fullStr Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
title_full_unstemmed Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
title_sort Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Méndez, Pablo Martín
author Méndez, Pablo Martín
author_facet Méndez, Pablo Martín
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv COVID-19
LOCKDOWN
SELF-REGULATION
LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY
FREEDOM-SECURITY
topic COVID-19
LOCKDOWN
SELF-REGULATION
LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY
FREEDOM-SECURITY
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Grounded in a will to adapt to dangers, and espouse both responsibility and resilience, voluntary measures have largely replaced one of the oldest public health strategies, quarantine. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, elicited a broad sweep of tactics from the archive of public health armoury. On a general level, this review essay addresses the common measures rolled out by various authorities against the pandemic - the lock-downs, reopening process, financial support and vaccination. By relating these measures to 1) the "plague-stricken town", deployed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe by the Polizeistaat; 2) the "self-regulation strategy" that emerged with liberal ideas at the end of the eighteenth century; and 3) the "minimum security" programmed by neoliberal governmentality in the second half of the twentieth century, it is suggested that tensions between freedom and security during, and after, the pandemic can be better understood. To end, the essay noticed that the pandemic has enforced tensions in the administration and calibration of individual wishes and collective wellbeing, creating a fragile “freedom-security relationship” and new problem space for self-regulation.
Fil: Méndez, Pablo Martín. Universidad Nacional de Lanus. Rectorado. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnica. Instituto de Cultura y Comunicacion.; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Lanus. Departamento de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina
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