The regime of ‘post-truth’: COVID-19 and the politics of knowledge

References

• ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (2021, 4 February). Q + A on Vaccines: What do you want to know? https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2021-11-02/13122086
   Google Scholar
• BBC News. (2021, March 27). The vaccine misinformation battle raging in France. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-56526265
   Google Scholar
• Bernstein, B. (2000). Pedagogy, symbolic control, and identity: Theory, research, critique. (Rev). New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield.
   Google Scholar
• Bernstein, B., & Solomon, J. (1999). Pedagogy, identity and the construction of a theory of symbolic control: Basil Bernstein questioned by Joseph Solomon. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(2), 265–279. doi:10.1080/01425699995443
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bhakdi, S. (2020, August 22). COVID-19: Immunität und Impfung [Immunity and Vaccination] (Prof. Dr med. Sucharit Bhakdi). MWGFD. https://www.mwgfd.de/2020/08/covid-19-immunitaet-und-impfung-prof-dr-med-sucharit-bhakdi/
   Google Scholar
• Brand, R. (2021, May 29). Covid: Leaks, lies and incompetence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArz2OPsGSU
   Google Scholar
• Connell, R. (2020). COVID-19/Sociology. Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 745–751. doi:10.1177/1440783320943262
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Done, E. J., & Murphy, M. (2016). The responsibilisation of teachers: A neoliberal solution to the problem of inclusion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2016.1243517.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elden, S. (2003). Plague, panopticon, police. Surveillance & Society, 1(3), 240–253. doi:10.24908/ss.v1i3.3339
   Google Scholar
• Ford, D. (2021, April 28). Fact Check: COVID-19 shots are NOT set to contribute to the ‘decimation of the world’s population. Lead Stories. https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/04/fact-check-covid-shots-are-not-set-to-contribute-to-the-decimation-of-the-world's-population.html
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1963). The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1970). The order of discourse: Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France (2 December). In R. Young (Ed.), Untying the text: A post-structuralist reader (pp. 51–78). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1976a). Society must be defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976. New York, NY: Picador.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1976b). The will to knowledge: The history of sexuality, Vol. 1. (R. Hurley, Trans.). London: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). London: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1979). The birth of biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1980a). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 1972–1977. (C. Gordon, Ed.) (C. Gordon, L. Marshall, J. Mepham, & K. Soper, Trans.). New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M. (1980b). Truth and power. In C. Gordon (Ed.), Power/knowledge (pp. 107–133). London: Harvester.
   Google Scholar
• Fuller, S. (2018). Post-truth: Knowledge as a power game. London: Anthem Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gerrard, J. (2021). The uneducated and the politics of knowing in ‘post truth’ times: Ranciere, populism and in/equality. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 42(2), 155–169. doi:10.1080/01596306.2019.1595528
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordon, C. (1991). Governmental rationality: An introduction. In G. Burchell, C. Gordon, & P. Miller (Eds.), The Foucault effect: Studies in governmentality: With two lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault (pp. 1–51). London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
   Google Scholar
• Gurri, M. (2020, May 26). The way out of post-truth. Discourse. https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/05/26/the-way-out-of-post-truth/
   Google Scholar
• Hannan, J. (2018). Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics. European Journal of Communication, 33(2), 214–226. doi:10.1177/0267323118760323
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lim, L. (2014). Ideology, rationality and reproduction in education: A critical discourse analysis. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 35(1), 61–76. doi:10.1080/01596306.2012.739467
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lyotard, J.-F. (1984). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge (G. Bennington & B. Massumi, trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Malcolm, D. (2021). Post-truth society? An eliasian sociological analysis of knowledge in the 21st century. Sociology, 0038038521994039.
   Google Scholar
• Mills, S. (2003). Michel foucault. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Naeem, S. B., Bhatti, R., & Khan, A. (2021). An exploration of how fake news is taking over social media and putting public health at risk. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 38(2), 143–49. doi:10.1111/hir.12320
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Newman, A. (2021, April 16). COVID shots to ‘decimate world population,’ warns Dr Bhakdi. The New American. https://thenewamerican.com/covid-shots-to-decimate-world-population-warns-dr-bhakdi/
   Google Scholar
• Pyysiäinen, J., Halpin, D., & Guilfoyle, A. (2017). Neoliberal governance and ‘responsibilization’ of agents: Reassessing the mechanisms of responsibility-shift in neoliberal discursive environments. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 18(2), 215–235. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2017.1331858
   Google Scholar
• Rancière, J. (1991). The ignorant schoolmaster: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation (K. Ross, trans.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rancière, J. (2016). Un-what? Philosophy & Rhetoric, 49(4), 589–606. doi:10.5325/philrhet.49.4.0589
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rose, N., O’Malley, P., & Valverde, M. (2006). Governmentality. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2(1), 83–104. doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.2.081805.105900
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scruton, R. (2015). Fools, frauds and firebrands: Thinkers of the New left. Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Continuum.
   Google Scholar
• Singh, P. (2002). Pedagogising knowledge: Bernstein’s theory of the pedagogic device. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23(4), 571–582. doi:10.1080/0142569022000038422
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Singh, P. (2015). Performativity and pedagogising knowledge: Globalising educational policy formation, dissemination and enactment. Journal of Education Policy, 30(3), 363–384. doi:10.1080/02680939.2014.961968
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sismondo, S. (2017). Post-truth? Social Studies of Science, 47(1), 3–6. doi:10.1177/0306312717692076
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Skelton, R. (2017, February 16). Fact Check’s return perfect timing in ‘post truth’ age. ABC Opinion. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-16/fact-check-return-perfect-timing-in-post-truth-age/8277268
   Google Scholar
• Stavrou, S. (2009). Negotiating curriculum change in the French university: The case of ‘regionalising’ social scientific knowledge. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19(1), 19–36. doi:10.1080/09620210903057624
   Google Scholar
• Stavrou, S. (2016). Pedagogising the university: On higher education policy implementation and its effects on social relations. Journal of Education Policy, 31(6), 789–804. doi:10.1080/02680939.2016.1188216
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stein, R. A., Ometa, O., Shetty, S. P., Katz, A., Popitiu, M. I., & Brotherton, R. (2021). Conspiracy theories in the era of COVID-19: A tale of two pandemics. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 75(2), e13778. doi:10.1111/ijcp.13778
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thomson, S., & Ip, E. C. (2020). COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 7, lsaa064. doi:10.1093/jlb/lsaa064
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar