Corona : : the once-in-a-century health crisis and its teachings : towards a more multi-resilient post-Corona world / / Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 204
• VerfasserIn: Benedikter, Roland,; Fathi, Karim,
• TeilnehmendeR: Fathi, Karim,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 204.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 pages)

In Corona: The Once-in-a-Century Health Crisis and Its Teachings. Towards A More Multi-Resilient Post-Corona World Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, than it will ultimately have contributed to progress.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- LIST OF IMAGES, TABLES AND FIGURES -- OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY -- FOREWORD -- Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- PREFACE -- PART 1: THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS -- 1 Introduction: "Do nothing" or, An epochal crisis -- 2 Systemic unpreparedness inducing a variety of psychological reactions -- 3 The branches and social strata hardest hit: A list to be carefully remembered for the next systemic rupture -- 4 Were nature, the environment and crime statistics "winners" of the crisis? Disputed "improvements" and their flip sides -- 5 Children and relationships -- 6 Labour and the economy: "Generation Corona" -- 7 Corona and Re-Globalisation 1: Sharpening awareness about the differences between political systems and their growing asymmetries -- 8 A battle for values and transformation not confined to bilateral competition, but spanning the globe -- 9 Unprecedented penetrative depth: Uplifting technology, changing sexuality, questioning science? -- 10 Corona and Re-Globalisation 2: Creating conscience for national and international reforms -- 11 Intellectual rhetoric between cheap "humanistic" appeal and kitsch -- 12 "Humanised" technology instead of a new humanism? -- 13 A boost to "post-human hybrid intelligence" such as Biological Espionage and Sentiment Analysis? -- 14 Striking a balance: Was Corona a watershed for Western humanism and the basic rationality of the enlightenment? -- 15 The vast variety of political instrumentalisations -- 16 Three more far-reaching aspects within global democracies and open societies: Confirmation Bias, "Republican" Turn and Re-Globalisation Drive -- PART 2: THE SIMULTANEOUSNESS OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL EFFECTS -- 17 Corona: An unprecedented crisis accelerating the (temporary?) rupture of advanced life patterns - including gender role models in democracies -- 18 "Unsocial sociability" and the re-shaping of the global order: Anthropology and politics intertwined -- 19 Medical diplomacy, or: The great divide of principles over and after Corona. More "Do it alone" - or more cooperation? -- 20 Don't forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious: From Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror -- 21 Coronavirus crisis social psychology: Between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand -- 22 Conspiracy theories: Misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of "fake news" -- 23 The perspective: The real question is not about COVID-19, but about "the world after" -- PART 3: THE CORONA CHALLENGE: MULTI-RESILIENCE FOR AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD RIDDEN BY CRISIS BUNDLES -- 24 In search of examples of efficient resilience: From the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a "flexible" handling of constitutions -- 25 Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics: A short overview of different options of socio-political responses -- 26 The primordial path to follow: Enhancing resilience. Basic philosophical assumptions and their implications for crisis-policy design -- 27 Revisioning the concept of resilience: A necessary step (not only) after Corona -- 28 Progressing from resilience to multi-resilience: Two basic approaches -- 28.1 Prerequisites: Relevant criteria -- 28.2 Complexify : Multi-resilience in a systemic perspective -- 28.3 Simplify : Multi-resilience in an action-oriented perspective -- 29 Five principles of Multi-resilience -- 29.1 Principle 1: Fostering individual resilience -- 29.2 Principle 2: Integrating centralised and decentralised decision-making and implementation -- 29.3 Principle 3: Problem-solving practices with knowns and unknowns -- 29.4. Principle 4: Supporting and enhancing collective intelligence through participatory and cross-sectoral knowledge management and integration -- 29.5 Principle 5: Fostering "Resilience Culture" by stimulating and facilitating collective reasoning and cohesion -- 30 Summary. Multi-resilience: A crucial topic to shape "Globalisation 2.0" -- PART 4: REQUIREMENTS FOR A POST-CORONA WORLD -- 31 The Corona Effect and "Diseasescape": Towards weaker, but more realistic globalisation and transnationalisation? -- 32 The uncertainty about the future of COVID-19: Short-term scenarios versus big-picture trends -- 33 Technological requirements: Six trends -- 33.1 Remote working -- 33.2 eLearning -- 33.3 Telehealth -- 33.4 E-commerce and on-demand economy -- 33.5 Automatisation -- 33.6 Increasing use of immersive technologies -- 34 Towards a post-Corona world: Seven upcoming conflict lines open societies should prepare for -- 34.1 Nationalism versus globalism -- 34.2 Freedom versus safety -- 34.3 Professionalism versus populism -- 34.4 Class: Rich versus poor -- 34.5 Ethnicity (racism) -- 34.6 Gender -- 34.7 Generation: young versus old -- 35 The post-Corona world: Potentials and visions for a "better globalised" international system -- 35.1 Idea potentials: Policy-relevant contributions by intellectuals, ecologists and futurists -- 35.2 Universal basic income as a driver towards better socio-economic resilience? -- 35.3 Post-Growth and Degrowth as responses to the economic and ecological challenges in a post-Corona world? -- PART 5: POST-CORONA POLICY DESIGN -- 36 Chances and limits of resilience: The development paradox and the increasing danger of man-made disasters with multi-sectoral side effects -- 37 Towards a broader and more integrated policy of future preparedness: Contributions from selected guiding concepts -- 37.1 A brief outline of three major contemporary coping concepts: Development, Sustainability, Resilience -- 37.2 Development versus Sustainability versus Resilience: Similarities, fault lines and potential (realistic) complementarities -- 37.3 Collective Wisdom as the missing connecting principle towards Multi-Resilience? -- 38 Fostering local, national and international paths towards Multi-resilience: Leverage points for interrelated social change bottom-up and top-down -- 38.1 Education programs for individual resilience -- 38.2 Bottom-up transformational impulses via building critical masses for positive change -- 38.3 Experimental Prototyping Projects -- 38.4 Building bridges between subsystems -- 38.5 Methods of communicative complexity management -- 38.6 Towards the integration of standards? -- PART 6: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A MULTI-RESILIENT POST-CORONA WORLD -- 39 "Health Terror"? Towards an adequate framework for a post-Corona socio-political philosophy: "Resistance" and power critique will not suffice -- 40 Seven strategic recommendations for pro-positive multi-resilient policy-making in the post-Corona world of open societies -- 40.1 Recommendation 1: Include Competency Development to become a crucial part of the education system -- 40.2 Recommendation 2: Strengthen European-Western Simulation Methodology and Strategic Foresight -- 40.3 Recommendation 3: Strengthen Future Anticipation Capacities and (potentially) their integration. From the Futures Cone and the Futures Diamond to Futures Literacy -- 40.4 Recommendation 4: Improve communication through "Complexity Workers -- 40.5 Recommendation 5: Refine multi-level governance -- 40.6 Recommendation 6: Expand and improve international cooperation -- 40.7 Recommendation 7: Sharpen global "crisis automatisms" and interconnected responsibility patterns on the way to global governance -- 41 Recommendations for global post-Corona policy-making in an increasingly multipolar world -- 41.1 Five policy trajectories proposed by the University of the United Nations - leading to the key concept of "Futures Literacy" -- 41.2 The forgotten perspective: Instilling a more encompassing and trans-systemic concept of health and healing? -- PART 7: OUTLOOK.

THE CORONAVIRUS LEGACY: A "NEW WORLD" AHEAD - OR BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL? -- 42 The (productively) ambiguous post-Corona vision: A "new world" ahead? -- 43 "Corona positivism": The global pandemic as an unprecedented "chance" for radical transformation - or even as the epochal example for what (social) art should achieve? -- 44 Corona as a driver of Re-globalisation towards post-Corona globalisation -- 45 A post-Corona core task: Re-positioning the open systems of Europe and the West by the means of Multi-Resilience -- 46 An end to geopolitical rivalry? Not likely - despite some positive signals -- 47 Back to business as usual - or systemic improvements at the "evo-devo" interface? -- 48 Integrating the obvious. post-Corona, Multi-Resilience and "Futures Literacy": "Bring together what belongs together" -- 49 Corona and emerging new responsibility patterns -- 50 Outlook: A post-Corona world in the making. Towards difficult, but feasible innovation - for the sake of a more pro-positive re-globalisation -- AFTERWORD -- Manfred B. Steger -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.