‘Saving face’ and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal)

By Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis, metaphors of “saving face”, and its corollary “losing face”, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. However, an Orientalist tendency to associate “face saving” with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally […]

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‘Saving face’ and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal)