The Organisation of Irresponsibility? : Reassessing COVID-19 in Europe / edited by Ewan Kerr, Emina Bužinkić and James Foley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foley, James, editor.

Kerr, Ewan, editor.

Series:

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 347.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 347

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative Social Sciences.

Critical Social Sciences.

Economics & Political Science.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reassessing COVID-19 in Europe

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged us to rethink how contemporary states navigate crises. Despite the extraordinary transformations of 2020–22, existing inequalities and power imbalances proved remarkably resilient. This volume argues that post-neoliberal states and governing classes were unequal to the historical moment, learning little about how to adapt to wider political, socio-economic, and ecological challenges. Bringing together critical perspectives, the book highlights how decision-making, leadership, and policy responses were inseparable from political power structures and societal contexts. The volume shows how crisis governance is actively contested, resisted, and shaped by social groups - and how social cleavages are either deepened or challenged in times of crisis.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Preface: The Organisation of Irresponsibility? COVID-19 and the Governance of State-Society Relations in Europe

Ewan Kerr, Emina Bužinkić and James Foley

2 The Management of Accountability: State Transformation and Class Politics in Scotland ’ s COVID - 19 Response Ewan Kerr and James Foley

3 Entangled Crises and Anti-systemic Mobilisations in Germany

Christian Fröhlich and Mihai Varga

4 Protest Movements in Pandemics: Dynamics of 4C Social Responses to COVID - 19 Governance in Poland Wojciech Ufel, Anna Cichecka and Mateusz Karolak

5 Governing through Crisis: Racialised Exception and Securitisation in Croatia ’ s COVID - 19 Response Emina Bužinkić and Senada Šelo Šabić

6 The Struggle over Masks on Twitter: an AC/DT Approach to Finnish Pandemic Governance

Juha Koljonen, Kleber Carrilho, and Emilia Palonen

7 Bottom-Up Governance in Times of Crisis: Informal Practices and Migrant Agency in Germany ’ s Assyrian Community during COVID - 19 Soner Barthoma

8 Managing Crises through Deepening Inequalities: the Neoliberal Labour Politics of the Turkish State during the COVID - 19 Pandemic Erdem Damar

9 CODA: COVID-19 – a Neoliberal Pandemic

Alfredo Saad Filho

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74778-8

9789004747784

OCLC:

1555343201

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004747784 DOI