This article presents a study of the discursive politics of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and Russia from its early onset to 30 April 2020. We examine how official securitisation discourses in the two countries draw on gendered constructions of national identity and discuss what linkages and potential implications they have for the state, its policy, and its society. Our analysis shows that both the US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin instrumentalise hierarchical gendered identities to securitise COVID-19. They mobilise gendered narratives, imageries, and practices to affirm particular understandings of the threat and create a homogeneous national ‘we’, portraying themselves as its guardians.

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性别证券化：特朗普和普京对 COVID-19 大流行的话语政治

本文介绍了对美国和俄罗斯爆发的 COVID-19 疫情从初期到 2020 年 4 月 30 日的话语政治研究。我们研究了两国的官方证券化话语如何利用国家认同的性别建构，并讨论了什么它们对国家、政策和社会的联系和潜在影响。我们的分析表明，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京都利用等级划分的性别身份将 COVID-19 证券化。他们动员性别叙事、意象和实践来确认对威胁的特定理解，并创造一个同质的民族“我们”，将自己描绘成它的守护者。