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The Next Pandemic
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
Effective Polarisation and the Pandemic
Dr Rula Nasey is a lecturer on political science at Surrey University and has been researching effective polarisation. She says pandemics are both biological and social phenomena as this one radicalised us all. In society we see that citizens or parties on specific parties they develop very strong negative feelings against the outgroup like the members of the opposite party, she adds.
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Speaker 2
As Laura Spinney said then pandemics are both biological and social phenomena as this one radicalised us all.
Speaker 6
What previous research has shown is that fatigue has been related to radicalisation of smaller groups and that fatigue has been a health challenge so a challenge to the health related behaviour but where our new results come in is to show that fatigue has ramifications far beyond the health area and far beyond just small radicalised groups it's actually the case that we have big sections of the populations that say that they would support protests against the government's policies and that they worry about their own political rights. What
Speaker 2
about those splinter groups we heard about from Darren Lecades back in series one. Well the pandemic gave them the chance to go mainstream onto TV news and tabloid newspapers and debates over vaccines and masks have particularly in North America turned into fundamental social fractures. Dr Rula Nasey is a lecturer on political science at Surrey University and has been researching effective polarisation.
Speaker 5
So, effective polarisation is different like any kind of like ideological polarisation. When we're talking about ideological polarisation in a party system or in society you know as a whole we just disagree and that's it we can debate about it but you know the basis is that we just have different political views on specific political issues and policies. When it comes to effective polarisation what happens is that in society we see that citizens or parties on specific parties they develop very strong negative feelings against the outgroup like the members of the opposite party that has a direct effect on socio cohesion for example. So there have been studies especially in the states where they have seen that for example we don't want to interact with people who support the opposite party or different political party.
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