Overview
Contributes to scholarship on the social and ethical issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic
Provides considerable breadth, with contributions from international researchers from diverse disciplines
Includes multiple case studies from Asia-Pacific and Europe
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Global Perspective
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Regional Focus
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About this book
This book brings a much-needed re-examination of the concepts of social fairness and justice in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Through careful analysis of issues as diverse as the allocation of vaccines through the global system COVAX, women and gender, migrants and refugees, the environment, and social justice, the authors bring novel perspectives on openness, freedom, and well-being. This ambitious collection combines political, economic, historical, philosophical, and cultural analyses to examine whether it is possible to envision a “fair society” after the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Reviews
“Can we talk about justice without hypocrisy or self-defeat in face of the vast human suffering demonstrated by a global pandemic? This book, in short, is an answer. A collection of works that cross academic disciplines and geographical boundaries, the authors successfully advocate a balanced reasoning that forms the basis of a just society. Truly remarkable.” (Kiichi Fujiwara, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo, Japan)
“This accessible volume presents interdisciplinary investigations of pressing questions. The authors invite us to examine what it means to live in a fair society and explore this concept as applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also present clear cases of the tension between liberalism and nationalism, which the pandemic has brought to the fore. While the book focuses on recent historical events, the themes are timeless. The volume will remain relevant long after the COVID-19 pandemic has faded into history.” (Alexander Nanni, Assistant Professor of Education and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Mahidol University International College, Thailand)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hikari Ishido is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University; director of Chiba University Bangkok Campus (in Thailand); and director general of the APEC Study Center Japan.
Jiro Mizushima is Professor of History of European Politics and Comparative European Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads the University’s flagship research project “New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.”
Masaya Kobayashi is Professor of Political Philosophy, Public Philosophy, Positive Psychology, and Comparative Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads Chiba University’s Research Center on Public Affairs and represents multiple academic networks related to his specializations above.
Xiaofang Zhang is Assistant Professor from China at Chiba University, Japan.. She specializes in environmental policy and conducts multiple research projects under the University’s flagship research project “New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Fairness in a Post-Pandemic World
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Hikari Ishido, Jiro Mizushima, Masaya Kobayashi, Xiaofang Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9654-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9653-5Published: 12 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9656-6Due: 26 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9654-2Published: 10 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Political Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, general, Globalization, International Economics