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dc.contributor.authorGJERDE, Lars Erik
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T15:46:47Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T15:46:47Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationActa sociologica, 2023, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 357-371en
dc.identifier.issn0001-6993
dc.identifier.issn1502-3869
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75120
dc.descriptionPublished online: 24 November 2022en
dc.description.abstractThe quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply discourse analysis to map the discursive struggle to define the quarantine hotel in Norway. The government and other key political actors channel a biopolitical discourse constituting the quarantine hotel as necessary to protect the Norwegian population from imported contagion. This discourse's meaning is contested by a juridical counter-discourse articulated by lawyers and travellers, which constitutes the quarantine hotel as imprisonment/internment and a breach of rights. Travellers tend to combine this with a biopolitical counter-discourse, dismissing the quarantine hotel's biopolitical properties, strengthening the juridical critique. These discourses are important resources in a transnational, ongoing struggle, where the prize is the legitimacy of the politics of Covid-19, and the very ordering of the post-pandemic world.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.ispartofActa sociologicaen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleBiopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel : a discourse analysis of the Norwegian caseen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00016993221136038
dc.identifier.volume66
dc.identifier.startpage357
dc.identifier.endpage371
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dc.identifier.issue4


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