Julien Malizard in the IRSEM podcast episode on the COVID-19 epidemic, presented by Alexandre Jubelin.
With Bénédicte Chéron, Damien Simonneau, Julien Malizard, David Bell.
For this episode devoted to the COVID-19 epidemic, and the use of the war metaphor applied to it, Alexandre Jubelin welcomes four guests to offer different angles of analysis of this issue:
- The historian Bénédicte Chéron, a specialist in army-nation relations, on the role of the army in managing the crisis (9:00)
- Political scientist Damien Simonneau, a specialist in critical security studies, to analyse the rhetoric of «securitisation» of the virus issue (19:15)
- The economist Julien Malizard, a specialist in defence economics, on the idea of a «war economy» in times of epidemics (33:30)
- The historian David Bell, on the past of the metaphor of war to designate a total mobilisation of society, as well as on the evolving role of the State in the face of the erasing of the memory of war; and the perspectives that this implies (48:30)
Audio extract: Emmanuel Macron's 16 March speech
