Pandemic Exposures : economy and society in the time of coronavirus / Didier Fassin, Marion Fourcade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fassin, Didier, author.

Fourcade, Marion, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 461 pages)

Place of Publication:

HAU Books 2021

Chicago : HAU Books, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this simple alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences conducting research on six continents to reflect on the multiple ways the coronavirus has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. An indispensable volume, Pandemic Exposures provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.

Contents:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Exposing and Being Exposed

Part I. Political Economies

Chapter 1. Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal

Chapter 2. No Epistemological Standstill on Sovereign Debt

Chapter 3. Ad Hoc Generosity in Times of COVID

Chapter 4. Gifts, Grifts, and Gambles

Chapter 5. Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose

Chapter 6. Authoritarianism and Pandemics

Chapter 7. Stretching Time

Part II. Moral Economies

Chapter 8. The Moral Economy of Life in the Pandemic

Chapter 9. To Kill or Let Die

Chapter 10. Protecting the Elderly or Saving the Economy?

Chapter 11. Reflections on Mutual Aid

Chapter 12. Carceral Contagion

Part III. Everyday Economies

Chapter 13. Agricultural Day Labor in Spain

Chapter 14. Making a Living, Resisting Collapse, Buildingthe Future

Chapter 15. Crisis as Preexisting Condition

Chapter 16. Searching for Life in Times of Pandemic

Part IV. Knowledge Economies

Chapter 17. The Great Online Migration

Chapter 18. "CBDCs Mean Evolution, not Revolution"

Chapter 19. Modeling Pandemic

Chapter 20. The Pandemic Economy of Face Masks

Chapter 21. COVID and the Death Drive of Toxic Individualism

Index.

Notes:

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