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We are at war', the French president, Emmanuel Macron repeated six times in a martial tone during a speech on 16 March 2020, calling for a 'general mobilization' (Pietralunga & Lemarié, 2020). In the face of the Covid-19 crisis, Macron and other political leaders resorted to wartime rhetoric to justify their governments' drastic emergency measures. This was a problematic move, since this was not a war in any conventional sense of the word; citizens were not called to leave their homes and families to go fight for their country but they were ordered to stay home, to avoid gatherings and travel in order to minimize physical interaction. Using a rhetoric of 'total war' has become a popular stratagem of world leaders during the pandemic when seeking their populations' compliance with the imposed measures. After all, an important characteristic of the concept 'total war' is that it entails 'the complete mobilization of a society's resources to achieve the absolute destruction of an enemy' (Bell, 2007: 7). With a highly contagious virus as the enemy, it meant that theatres and concert venues around the world were to close their doors and cancel all performances for the foreseeable future

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Author

Annelies Andries; Clare Siviter

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences