The spirit of the Blitz, for example, is Common Strategies a collective rendering of what was originally In March 2020, Norway, France and the United conceived of as individual resilience, expressed Kingdom introduced national lockdowns in Despite important differences in the ways that in the saying ’Keep calm and carry on’. [...] The task for Problem) Out the psychological and political burdens that the three governments was now not so much to As the pandemic wore on, the politics of duties resulted from the threat to normal life and to en- secure citizen acquiescence in performing cer- in the UK, France and Norway thus continued to able them to maximise their policy objectives in tain duties as to encourage citizen forbea. [...] In World War II, in the UK, the One manifestation of this new emphasis was increasingly sought to minimise public percep- Committee of Imperial Defence identified sto- the attention each government paid to outcomes tions of the costs of lockdown in ways that were icism as the critical attitude to foster in order to and data (e.g. [...] 10 contrast to those in other countries, it allowed single clearest expression of this was President In both cases it is clear that strategies of engage- governments to draw attention away from the Macron’s outspoken critiques of the unvacci- ment matter, and that the duties which, at the unknown and uncontrollable aspects of the pan- nated in France (who were predominantly non- end of the day, ac. [...] As a result, a growing sense of the importance History shows us that in moments of public of civic trust and distrust emerged in this phase This third strategy is revealing not just of the crisis or national trauma, state-citizenship rela- of the pandemic and shaped the approaches politics of duties but also of state-citizen relations tions change, sometimes temporarily, some- adopted in each of t.
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