Start off with defining what an authoritarian government is. Give a contemporary example of an authoritarian government and look at how they have dealt with Covid and how is it any different to democratic countries. What are their covid rates compared to the rest of the world?Discuss if we can trust authoritarian governments with the statistics they provide with the potential censorship of press they could be downplaying the number of deaths to appear more in control. Reading to focus on and apply in the context of Covid and Covid regulations such as social distancing and face coverings:Producing compliance and the acceptance of violence: Michel Foucault (1977)The state as a practice not a thing: Expression of the structures/relations of power, rather than a single entity (the sovereign) Governmentality: Government perceived as an art, involving a range of techniques of control and discipline As power exercises discipline and punishment in society it creates docile bodies ideal for factories, the military, school classrooms, etc. We, then, internalise more discipline as we are moulded/shapedMore likely to follow rules/laws, to behave, as prison is only a part of a wider network which includes all other social institutions (schools, family, the military)Biopower: control of the bodies (actions) and of what we know (knowledge)Acceptance & normalisation of the status-quo:-Conflict-Production of violence-Consumerism-Killingdying
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