Le populisme polonais et la pandémie de Covid-19: représentation de la crise dans les hebdomadaires de droite
Polish populism and the Covid-19 pandemic: representation of the crisis in right-wing weeklies

Author(s): Elodie Thevenin, Agnieszka Sadecka
Subject(s): Economy, Sociology, International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Covid-19; populism; Poland; populist discourse; right-wing press; media
Summary/Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic presents a great challenge worldwide on how to manage a global health crisis. While some governments have been more successful than others in trying to cope with the crisis, several politicians presented conflicting arguments in regard the spread of coronavirus. Between the implementation of harsh sanitary measures to the mistrust of scientific data and conspiracy theory, but also criticism against European and international organisations, the Polish public had witnessed different reactions from politicians vis-à-vis the use of science throughout the crisis. This chapter focuses on the representation of the Covid-19 pandemic in a selection of Polish weekly magazines close to the right-wing populist political coalition in power, United Right. We aim at investigating the construction of the Polish populist discourse on the Covid-19 crisis, focusing on how the crisis is represented, how the people – as the main recipient of populist discourse – is addressed, and finally how science is used.

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