What is it about?
Social Impact of Covid-19: how class, gender, and age intersect in discussions around 65+ curfew during the pandemic in Turkey. An intersectional analysis of the Twitter campaign #StayatHome (#EvdeKal) and the media outlets’ news coverage of the policy implementation show that both platforms circulated human-interest stories of working-class men who defy the curfew predominantly. Both the stories and Twitter user comments often defined the subjects of those stories as rule-breakers and, therefore, as “mischievous uncles.” They became the scapegoats, while upper and middle classes avoided the label.
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Why is it important?
These findings have implications for the framing of policy outcomes and welfare provisions as well as oppositional politics that push for the expansion of labor protections during the pandemic.
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This page is a summary of: “Mischievous Uncles” as Rule Breakers: Intersectional Stereotypes and Risk Perceptions During the Coronavirus Pandemic in Turkey, Social Media + Society, July 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2056305120949268.
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