@article{Keval_H-2021_115272,
title = {Necropolitical constructions of happiness, COVID-19 and higher education},
author = {Keval, H. and Wright, T.},
month = {dec},
year = {2021},
abstract = {This piece provokes discussions about the pathological performativities of COVID-19, the British state and UK higher education. We argue that despite the apparent disconnectedness of these components, the connecting fabric is one of anecropolitical(Mbembé and MeintjesCitation2003) nature. This socio-political hegemony is constitutive of and through the ‘performativity of happiness’ as a mechanism of oppression. Universities as sites and locations where multiple oppressions are produced and enacted, can also be sites of potential mobilised empowerment. The pathological politics of COVID-19 rests on these mechanics, while the potential for liberatory solidarities is already at work in resistance.},
pages = {170-173},
volume = {9},
issue = {2},
journal = {Critical Studies on Security},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2021.1978644},
}
