Centre–periphery contestation and the spatialization of Covid-19 discourse in Norway

Gulbrandsen, Kristin Smette

doi:10.1080/21622671.2022.2062440

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“…Norway systematically scores highly on different trust surveys, and overall people tend to display trust in the government, the institutions, as well as each other (Christensen & Lægreid, 2020, though with variations across for example centre‐periphery dimensions, Guldbrandsen, 2022). In research on adherence to social norms, Norway has been found to score high on cultural tightness, which entails strict social norms and limited acceptance for behaviour deviating from such norms (Gelfand et al., 2011).…”

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Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway

Moss

Sandbakken

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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Many societies experienced pushback against governmental COVID‐19 measures. When the Norwegian government made it a punishable offence to spend the night at privately owned cabins in the first phase of the pandemic, this resulted in discussions and pushback. Basing our research on in‐depth interviews at three different time points during the pandemic, we ask how Norwegian participants discursively explain why the cabin ban was the first measure that evoked pushback in Norway. We conducted a Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA), exploring three overarching explanations provided by the interview participants. In the first explanation, the pushback was presented as a result of the cultural importance of the cabin. Here, participants partly legitimised the pushback when constructing it as a predictable reaction in this cultural context. In the second explanation, participants constructed the pushback as an expression of ‘cabin people’ in particular and Norwegians in general being ‘too privileged’ to acknowledge the measure's necessity. Here, the pushback was constructed as an illegitimate reaction. In the third explanation, participants explained the pushback as a result of people seeing the measure as meaningless. This interpretation constructs pushback as a legitimate response to an illogical measure. These different constructions illustrate the complexity of compliance with COVID measures, where people negotiated individual freedom against solidarity, and compliance against critical thinking. The article contributes to the understanding of people's negotiations of resistance and pushback against restrictive measures. We argue that social psychological theory and research need to acknowledge the temporal, contextual and ideological specificities in understanding compliance and non‐compliance.

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Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway

Moss

Sandbakken

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Due to a fault in the neoliberal system brought on by the effects of globalization, COVID-19 has expanded all over the world (Isakovic, 2020). Global social discontent and protest movements spread due to the outcome’s spatial diversity (Gulbrandsen, 2022). Different response patterns and mitigation tactics implemented in various countries to combat the pandemic were the reasons for the varying outcomes (Broschek, 2022).…”

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Policing the spread of COVID-19 and the struggle for sustainable livelihood among informal workers in Nigeria

Lenshie,

Miapyen,

Otu

et al. 2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the subject of numerous scholarly discussions. However, scholars have yet to pay more attention to the link between its official containment measures and the struggle of informal workers for sustainable livelihoods in Nigeria. This study argues that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown policing was one aspect of the state-society encounter that had a deleterious effect on the economic security of vulnerable populations. The research employs the thesis of neoliberalism and a qualitative-dominant mixed methods approach to explore this state-society encounter during the pandemic. It concludes that a subtle and humane approach to policing in emergencies presents a more civil engagement in policy enforcement that would foster happier encounters between security forces and the general public.

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Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform

Gulbrandsen

2023

Political Geography

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Centre–periphery contestation and the spatialization of Covid-19 discourse in Norway

Cited by 6 publications

References 74 publications

Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway

Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway

Policing the spread of COVID-19 and the struggle for sustainable livelihood among informal workers in Nigeria

Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform

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