<i>ICED</i>: Videogames in the Battle Between the Citizen and the Human

Amaya, Hector

doi:10.1080/15405702.2015.1021465

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“…Relatedly, the very capacity for self-care and, indeed, for survival, is inextricably linked to and dependent upon being a citizen. As Amaya (2015 : 167) observes in another context, the hegemonic idea of a self-interested free will underpins the assumption of citizenship, and so ‘the pleasures of survival, success, accumulation, and mastery cannot be dissociated from the citizenship assumption’. Tellingly, there are no migrants or refugees – at least none are signified as such – in the campaigns.…”

Section: The Saviour Citizenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic

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Hegde

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articulating and reinforcing nationalism and neoliberalism. The campaigns frame the pandemic as a force that brings the nation together and conjure up notions of national ‘solidarity lite’ while relentlessly authorizing the crisis-ready responsible citizen. In so doing, they reproduce neoliberal rationality by shifting the locus of responsibility from the state and social structures to the individual and re-inscribing gendered and classed notions of responsibility, care and citizenship. Mobilizing national neoliberal narratives enables governments to render the pandemic legible as a crisis while obscuring both the structural injustices that exacerbate the crisis and the structural changes required to address it.

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Section: The Saviour Citizenmentioning

confidence: 99%