What does Covid-19 reveal about France today? What are its effects on culture, politics, and society? One of the contentions of this special issue is that measuring its impacts takes on full significance when approached in the context of other crises that have affected the nation in recent years. These include growing inequality and social and political division, and the rise of populism. This special issue examines how these existing predicaments shed light on the impact of Covid-19. It also seeks to explore ways through which we may give meaning to this tragic moment in French history through art and the public humanities.
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Introduction
France in the Age of Covid-19
Éric Touya de Marenne
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–10 (10 total)
Political Ramifications of Covid-19
Inequalities, Divides, Populism
Éric Touya de Marenne
Abstract
The article examines how the current Covid-19 crisis in France crosses into existing socio-economic, political, and existential crises faced by the nation in recent years. It considers the pandemic's impact in the context of the criticism that the French government response provoked in opposition parties regarding its preparedness and strategies. Beyond the multiple budget cuts that have affected the health-care system in France in recent years, and significantly lessen, according to critiques, the country's ability to tackle Covid-19, a growing number of French people link the failure of their government and the rise of violence in society to France's growing dependence on the EU and the decline of French sovereignty in a globalized world. The pandemic's impact is measured through the prism of the current socio-economic crisis, triggered by months of confinements and curfews; the rise of unemployment and populism; and what it could mean for the future of democracy.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 11–28 (18 total)