31.2417, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2417. Wed Jul 29 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2417, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:04:40
From: Lilian Lem Atanga [l.l.atanga at gmail.com]
Subject: Political discourse in the era of COVID-19: Gender, Power and Ideology

 
Full Title: Political discourse in the era of COVID-19: Gender, Power and Ideology 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Diana Boxer
Meeting Email: dboxer at ufl.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This session seeks to examine how political ideologies have contributed to
shaping gender and power discourses on COVID-19, how they serve to include or
exclude, and how they are sustained, challenged, or subverted. Painter and Qiu
(2020) note that the discourse of social distancing, vital to mitigate the
spread of the novel coronavirus, is also hinged on political beliefs.


Call for Papers: 

The discursive construction of COVID-19 has largely hinged on power relations
and political ideology. This panel seeks to examine how political ideologies
have contributed to shaping gender and power discourses on COVID-19, how they
serve to include or exclude, and how they are sustained, challenged, or
subverted. Painter and Qiu (2020) note that the discourse of social
distancing, vital to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, is also
hinged on political beliefs. Moreover, the discourse of compliance has become
politically motivated, with perceptions of risk along the lines of political
ideologies (Barrios and Hochberg 2020). COVID-19 has taken the world by storm,
with no one government having anticipated its effects. The political discourse
surrounding COVID-19 has been diverse, ranging from labeling the virus to
shifting blame (Yeung 2020). In the US, some adherence to CDC and WHO
directives has hinged along party lines (Barrios and Hochberg 2020).  Indeed,
across the globe COVID-19-related behavior has been highly politicized. 

The papers included in this panel cover a range of political discourse
surrounding the pandemic: (social) media discourse, gendered discourses about
COVID by different state leaders across the world, and discourses resulting in
fragmenting previous political ideologies and subverting relations of power
with political leadership. A group of international scholars will form part of
the panel, including the conveners, Diana Boxer (US) and Lilian Atanga
(Cameroon).  Papers will be presented by both conveners: 1) Atanga on The
Politics of COVID in African Contexts; and 2) Boxer and Judith Lejeck on
Trump’s blame shifting. Recruited participants are 1) Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
(Nigeria) on the construction (and deconstruction) of gender asymmetries in
conversations between women and men in the wake of COVID in the Nigerian
setting; and 2) Stefanie Schnurr, Sophie Riessner-Rubicek and Carolyn Debray
(UK).  This latter paper explores the pragmatics of inclusion and exclusion by
analyzing the (purportedly positive) media coverage women head of states
world-wide are receiving for their handling of the Covid19 pandemic. 
 
Two discussants will also participate:  John Wilson (Northern Ireland) and
Cornelia Ilie (Sweden). The panel will be open to papers related to its
proposed theme.

We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words in areas that deal with any of
the issues raised in the proposal. Submit abstracts to l.l.atanga at gmail.com
latest 25 October 2020.

References
Yeung, E. Y. (2020). COVID-19 PPE shortage: The real crisis is the
blame-shifting culture in medicine. CMAJ, 192(20). 
Wenham, C., Smith, J., & Morgan, R. (2020). COVID-19: the gendered impacts of
the outbreak. The Lancet, 395(10227), 846-848.
Painter, M., & Qiu, T. (2020). Political beliefs affect compliance with
covid-19 social distancing orders. Available at SSRN 3569098.
Barrios, J. M., & Hochberg, Y. (2020). Risk perception through the lens of
politics in the time of the covid-19 pandemic (No. w27008). National Bureau of
Economic Research.




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