The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis

In this paper, we examine the multiple significations of the “frontline” metaphor in the UK during the first ten months of COVID-19. We argue that the term “frontline” has operated as a performative frame, which has helped to produce the very notion and the materialization of the “COVID-19 frontline...

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Main Authors: Sara Farris, Nira Yuval-Davis, Catherine Rottenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2021-01-01
Series:State Crime
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/statecrime.10.2.0284