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

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

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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-...

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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)
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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.

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