From Zombie Capitalism to Contagion Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781032567990 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

UK) Creaven Sean (University of the West of England

Opis

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Neoliberalism and zombie capitalism  2. Pandemics, instrumental reason, and corporate technoscience  3. Zombie capitalism and the ecological crisis  4. Epidemiological rift: From zombie capitalism to contagion capitalism  Conclusion

O autorze

Sean Creaven is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests include the sociology of modernity and postmodernity, sociological theory, critical theory, Marxism and Post-Marxism, critical realism, and criminological theory. He is the author of The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2023), Against the Spiritual Turn: Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2010), Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory (Routledge, 2007), and Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2000).