Pandemic Exposures : : economy and society in the time of coronavirus / / Didier Fassin, Marion Fourcade.

• VerfasserIn: Fassin, Didier,; Fourcade, Marion,
• TeilnehmendeR: Fourcade, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Chicago : : HAU Books,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 461 pages)

For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this simple alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences conducting research on six continents to reflect on the multiple ways the coronavirus has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. An indispensable volume, Pandemic Exposures provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.

Table of Contents

List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Exposing and Being Exposed -- Part I. Political Economies -- Chapter 1. Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal -- Chapter 2. No Epistemological Standstill on Sovereign Debt -- Chapter 3. Ad Hoc Generosity in Times of COVID -- Chapter 4. Gifts, Grifts, and Gambles -- Chapter 5. Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose -- Chapter 6. Authoritarianism and Pandemics -- Chapter 7. Stretching Time -- Part II. Moral Economies -- Chapter 8. The Moral Economy of Life in the Pandemic -- Chapter 9. To Kill or Let Die -- Chapter 10. Protecting the Elderly or Saving the Economy? -- Chapter 11. Reflections on Mutual Aid -- Chapter 12. Carceral Contagion -- Part III. Everyday Economies -- Chapter 13. Agricultural Day Labor in Spain -- Chapter 14. Making a Living, Resisting Collapse, Buildingthe Future -- Chapter 15. Crisis as Preexisting Condition -- Chapter 16. Searching for Life in Times of Pandemic -- Part IV. Knowledge Economies -- Chapter 17. The Great Online Migration -- Chapter 18. "CBDCs Mean Evolution, not Revolution" -- Chapter 19. Modeling Pandemic -- Chapter 20. The Pandemic Economy of Face Masks -- Chapter 21. COVID and the Death Drive of Toxic Individualism -- Index.