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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Další autoři: Delanty, Gerard, 1960- (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Berlin : Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
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  • 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