TY - JOUR
AU - Keval, Harshad
AU - Wright, Toni
PY - 2021
DA - December
TI - Necropolitical constructions of happiness, COVID-19 and higher education
JO - Critical Studies on Security
EP - 173
VL - 9
IS - 2
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2021.1978644
AB - 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.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3035643
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Education
KW - Mental health and wellbeing
ER