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Governing humans and ‘things’ : power and rule in Norway during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Journal of political power, 2021, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 472-492
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GJERDE, Lars Erik, Governing humans and ‘things’ : power and rule in Norway during the Covid-19 pandemic, Journal of political power, 2021, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 472-492, [SPS] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69555
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This text focuses on the mentalities and technologies of power employed by the Norwegian government as it attempts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Utilizing governmentality studies and a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I find life itself to be given primacy within a biopolitical problem space where the government seeks to contain the spread of Covid-19. The government primarily rationalizes its exercises of power in a liberal manner while employing a complex set of liberal and coercive technologies, which it channels towards both the human population, which serves as an object of administration, and Covid-19, which serves as an object of domination.
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Published online: 07 January 2021