Unprecedented? : : how COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economy.
A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
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Superior document: | Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Goldsmiths, University London,, 2022. ©2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Great Interruption
- Wells of Value: Sovereign Debts, Care Debts
- Sovereignty
- Care
- Entering a New Crisis - Or Exiting an Old One?
- A Crisis of Space
- Hyper-domestication
- Platformisation
- Re-bordering
- A New Spatial Fix?
- Conclusion: What Makes 'Society'?
- 2 Endless Temporary Measures: The Politics of 'Leverage'
- Paper Promises: Rising Indebtedness Pre-pandemic
- The Lockdown Economy: Building the Bridge
- The City
- The High Street
- The Response
- Public Money, Public Services, Private Gain
- Conclusion: Who Gains When Others Pay?
- 3 New Divisions of Labour: The Politics of 'Flexibility'
- Failing to Work: Labour Markets Before the Pandemic
- Flexibility and Contingent Work
- Welfare, Austerity and 'Work First' Policy
- Work in the Pandemic
- Key workers
- 'Working from Home': Paid and Unpaid
- Furlough, Unemployment and the Misrepresentation of Official Statistics
- Conclusion: What Was Revealed?
- 4 Confine and Track: The Politics of 'Protection'
- The Border-Industrial Complex
- The 'Confinement Continuum' During Covid-19
- Digital Health Infrastructures
- What Was Revealed?
- 5 Education without Context: The Politics of 'Learning'
- Before 2020
- Austerity Logics
- Platform Logics
- Education Under Lockdown
- Policy Challenges
- Winners and Losers
- Conclusion: What Was Revealed?
- 6 Escaping Rentier Nationalism
- Distinguishing 'Rentier Nationalism'
- Heterodoxy Reigns
- Searching for a New Paradigm
- Reclaiming of Public Space
- Sustaining Anger
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index.