Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781032194714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Sutoris, Peter

Opis

Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020–21.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences at a time of Crisis  Section 1: Key Covid Concepts Re-examined  1. The ‘Lockdown Consensus’ in the UK and the Dangers of Performative Scientism  2. Stopping the Spread of Health  3. Pandemic Response, Cultural Anthropology and ‘The Myth of the Caring Society’  4. Digital Society, Algorithmic Harm, and the Pandemic Response  5. Against the Logic of Immunity: Philosophy and the Epidemic  Section 2: Pandemic Policy and the Global South  6. How the World's Harshest Lockdown Unleashed a Humanitarian Crisis  7. Covid-19 in Angola: Militarization of Lockdown Language and State Policy in Angola  8. The Economic Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown Policies in Argentina  9. An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Lockdown Policy in Ghana  10.The Covid-19 Syndemic and Lessons (Not) Learned from Past Epidemics: One Size Doesn’t Fit All  Section 3: Alternative Lenses on Pandemic Response  11. The Proportionality of Lockdowns  12. Lockdowns and Intergenerational Justice  13. Lockdown Lived Experience, Illness, Power and Epistemic Injustice  14. What We Lost in Lockdown  15. Do Lockdowns Work for Women? The Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic and Policy Responses