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Unprecedented? : how Covid-19 revealed the politics of our economy / William Davies [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, William, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects--Great Britain.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Goldsmiths Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
- 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
- 6 Escaping Rentier Nationalism
- Distinguishing 'Rentier Nationalism'
- Heterodoxy Reigns
- Searching for a New Paradigm
- Reclaiming of Public Space
- Sustaining Anger
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781913380113
- 1913380114
- OCLC:
- 1311316446
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