{"product_id":"pandemics-politics-and-society","title":"Pandemics, Politics, and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well as perspectives beyond the crisis. The volume seeks to focus on Covid-19 not simply as the terrain of epidemiology or public health, but as raising fundamental questions about the nature of social, economic and political processes. The problems of contemporary societies have become intensified as a result of the pandemic. Understanding the pandemic is as much a sociological question as it is a biological one, since viral infections are transmitted through social interaction. In many ways, the pandemic poses fundamental existential as well as political questions about social life as well as exposing many of the inequalities in contemporary societies. As the chapters in this volume show, epidemiological issues and sociological problems are elucidated in many ways around the themes of power, politics, security, suffering, equality and justice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a cutting edge and accessible volume on the Covid-19 pandemic with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerard Delanty\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1 Politics, Experts and the State\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaus Offe\u003cbr\u003e2. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory Notes on its ‘Epistemic Regime’ \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Turner\u003cbr\u003e3. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJan Zielonka\u003cbr\u003e4. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan White\u003cbr\u003e5. Emergency Europe after Covid-19 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Innerarity\u003cbr\u003e6. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2 Globalization, History and the Future\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelga Nowotny\u003cbr\u003e7. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEva Horn\u003cbr\u003e8. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and COVID-19 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBryan S. Turner\u003cbr\u003e9. The Political Theology of Covid-19: a Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Chernilo\u003cbr\u003e10. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrédéric Vandenberghe \u0026amp; Jean-Francois Véran\u003cbr\u003e11. The Pandemic as a Global Total Social Fact \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3 The Social and Alternatives\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSylvia Walby\u003cbr\u003e12. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonatella della Porta\u003cbr\u003e13. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonja Avlijaš\u003cbr\u003e14. Security for Whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbena Azmanova\u003cbr\u003e15. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99% \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260338184536,"sku":"9783110713237","price":52.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110713237.jpg?v=1780039816","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pandemics-politics-and-society","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}