How the COVID-19 Pandemic Polarized Societies
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe crisis many Western societies have faced since the 2nd World War. In the very early days of the pandemic, I became director of a large-scale social science project to understand how the pandemic influenced Western democracies, which simultaneously gained a prominent role in the Danish government and media response. In this talk, I will weave together published and forthcoming articles examining how the pandemic fueled radicalization, condemnation and polarization across Western countries and beyond – and how we may avoid similar outcomes from the next crises facing us related to, for example, increasing international and climate-related tensions.
Date:
22 November 2022, 12:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
Clay Room
Speaker:
Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University)
Organising department:
Nuffield College
Organisers:
Pepper Culpepper (Nuffield College),
Professor Jane Green (Nuffield College),
Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College),
Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Nuffield College)
Organiser contact email address:
maxine.collett@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Maxine Collett
