The Politics of Blaming: the Narrative Battle between China and the US over COVID-19
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14230/21:00120761
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11366-020-09690-8.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11366-020-09690-8.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09690-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11366-020-09690-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Politics of Blaming: the Narrative Battle between China and the US over COVID-19
Original language description
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing a surge of nationalism throughout an ostensibly globalized world. In this article, we focus on the “narrative battle” over COVID-19 that has escalated between two competing major powers – China and the US. Guided by a cultural sociological approach, we reveal the meaning-making processes behind the narrative battle through in-depth, hermeneutical reconstruction of the “reactive performance” of each country, as articulated in political speeches and mass media. We point out that, in the Chinese narrative, the country emerges from a “century of humiliation,” becoming a major world power that will no longer be subject to the “bullying” of the West. In the US narrative, even though Trump initially highlights the country’s “very good” relationship with China, as the storyline unfolds, China is blamed for the global pandemic, assuming again the role of a dangerous actor on the world stage. Our research shows that the current reactive communicative mechanism is not only unsustainable, but also dangerous in times of crisis. We suggest that recognition of the narrative battle and acknowledgement of its performative function in the public sphere is the first step toward mutual understanding and meaningful dialogue between these two world powers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Chinese Political Science
ISSN
1080-6954
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
295-315
UT code for WoS article
000565160600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090163455