Beschreibung:
This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation.
Introduction: post-COVID transformations 1. Pandemics in global and historical perspective 2. Trade, health and social reproduction in a COVID world 3. Shared pretenses for collective inaction: the economic growth imperative, COVID-19, and climate change 4. On living in an already- unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations 5. Global transitioning: beyond the Covid-19 pandemic 6. Vaccine nationalism: contested relationships between COVID-19 and globalization 7. India's pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation 8. Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea 9. A new deal after COVID-19 10. The post-pandemic world and the prospect for global justice: a commentary