Unprecedented? : : how COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economy.

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
:
Davies, William.
TeilnehmendeR:
Dutta, Sahil Jai.
Taylor, Nick.
Tazzioli, Martina.
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : Goldsmiths, University London,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
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.

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