Pandemics, Politics, and Society : : Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis /

Pandemics, Politics, and Society : : Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis / / ed. by Gerard Delanty.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Avlijaš, Sonja,
Azmanova, Albena,
Chernilo, Daniel,
Delanty, Gerard,
Horn, Eva,
Innerarity, Daniel,
Nowotny, Helga,
Offe, Claus,
Porta, Donatella della,
Turner, Bryan S.,
Turner, Stephen,
Vandenberghe, Frédéric,
Véran, Jean-François,
Walby, Sylvia,
White, Jonathan,
Zielonka, Jan,
HerausgeberIn:
Delanty, Gerard,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 270 p.)
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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

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