dc.contributor.author | GJERDE, Lars Erik | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-14T15:46:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-14T15:46:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Acta sociologica, 2023, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 357-371 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-6993 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1502-3869 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75120 | |
dc.description | Published online: 24 November 2022 | en |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Sage | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Acta sociologica | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.title | Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel : a discourse analysis of the Norwegian case | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/00016993221136038 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 66 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 357 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 371 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 4 | |