Pandemics, Politics, and Society Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis
This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and societ...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context
- Part 1: Politics, Experts and the State
- Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory notes on its “epistemic regime”
- The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals
- Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians?
- Emergency Europe after Covid-19
- Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic
- Part 2: Globalization, History and the Future
- In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization
- Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and Covid-19
- The Political Theology of Covid-19: A Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes
- Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
- The Pandemic as a Global Social Total Fact
- Part 3: The Social and Alternatives
- Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy
- Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic
- Security for whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic
- Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99%
- Notes on Contributors
- Index