The Long Year : : A 2020 Reader / / ed. by Thomas J. Sugrue, Caitlin Zaloom.

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
Introduction: Preexisting Conditions --
PART I Diagnosing the Crises --
PANDEMICS AS HISTORY --
IT’S THE GEOGRAPHY, STUPID! Planetary Urbanization Revealed --
GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND THE CORONA SHOCK --
THE JOB OF CRITICAL THINKING NOW --
PART II Essential Work --
“THE SUPPLY CHAIN MUST CONTINUE” --
THE ENDURING DISPOSABILITY OF LATINX WORKERS --
FAST FOOD, PRECARIOUS WORKERS --
MOTHERS, MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE PANDEMIC --
WORKING IN CHINA IN THE COVID- 19 ERA --
INDIA IN COVID- 19 A Tragedy Foretold --
PANDEMIC SECURITY AND INSECURITY IN THE GULF --
HIDDEN VULNERABILITY AND INEQUALITY The COVID- 19 Pandemic in Singapore --
ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC ON GENDER INEQUALITY AND GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA --
PART III Policing and Protest --
CIVIL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL The Fight Against Racism Has Always Been Global --
RAGE AND UPRISING --
DEFUND THE POLICE AND REFUND THE COMMUNITIES --
POLICING’S HISTORY ARGUES AGAINST REFORM --
CAN I GET A WITNESS? --
AS AMERICAN AS CHILD SEPARATION --
PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY GO GLOBAL --
PART IV Viral Biopolitics --
TO HEAL THE BODY, HEAL THE BODY POLITIC --
AMERICAN ELDERCIDE --
THE WORLD IS A FACTORY FARM --
LISTEN TO THE BIRDS --
RISK FOR “US” OR FOR “THEM”? The Comparative Politics of Diversity and Responses to AIDS and COVID- 19 --
THINK LIKE A VIRUS --
PART V Pandemic Lives --
FOR THE LOVE OF STRANGERS --
WHERE IS SHE? --
GRIEF CIRCLING --
IN CHINA, PANDEMIC DIARIES UNITE AND DIVIDE A NATION --
PART VI Private Crises in Public Spaces --
THE VIOLENCE OF URBAN VACANCY --
THE LIMITS OF TELECOMMUTING --
A QUIET DISASTER Mexico City, Mexico --
HEALTH SELF- DEFENSE IN A SÃO PAULO FAVELA --
EMERGENCY URBANISM --
A CRISIS TOO BIG TO WASTE What Comes After Private Housing Fails? --
PART VII The Failure of the State --
COVID BLINDNESS --
FIVE LESSONS FOR DEMOCRACY FROM THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC --
CAN DEMOCRACIES HANDLE SYSTEMIC RISKS? --
THE VULNERABLE FOUNDATIONS OF INDIA’S URBANISM --
PANDEMICS IN THE POST- GRID IMAGINARY --
PANDEMIC DÉJÀ VU --
COVID- 19 IN A BORDER NATION --
PART VIII Alternative Futures --
ARE WE IN DENIAL ABOUT DENIAL? --
CAN THE CROWD SPEAK? --
THE PANDEMIC’S BRIEF DISASTER UTOPIA --
BUILDING A SOCIETY THAT VALUES CARE --
REBUILDING SOLIDARITY IN A BROKEN WORLD --
PART IX Further Reading --
PANDEMIC SYLLABUS --
CONTRIBUTORS --
SOURCE CREDITS --
INDEX
Summary:Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnosis.In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang, Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded hospitals of India.The definitive guide to these ongoing catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented. It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public Books and the Social Science Research Council.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780231555586
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110994513
9783110994407
DOI:10.7312/sugr20452
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Thomas J. Sugrue, Caitlin Zaloom.