ISBN:
9780231555586
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (560 pages)
Series Statement:
Public Books Series
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Economic development-History-21st century
;
Equality-Social aspects
;
Racial justice
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In The Long Year, some of the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments, by Caitlin Zaloom -- Introduction: Preexisting Conditions, by Thomas J. Sugrue -- Part I: Diagnosing the Crises -- Pandemics as History, by Andy Horowitz -- It's the Geography, Stupid! Planetary Urbanization Revealed, by Éric Charmes and Max Rousseau -- Global Inequality and the Corona Shock, by Adam Tooze -- The Job of Critical Thinking Now, by Joan Wallach Scott -- Part II: Essential Work -- "The Supply Chain Must Continue", by Andrew Lakoff -- The Enduring Disposability of Latinx Workers, by Natalia Molina -- Fast Food, Precarious Workers, by Marcia Chatelain -- Mothers, Mental Health, and the Pandemic, by Michelle Cera -- Working in China in the COVID-19 Era, by Gilles Guiheux, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, and Ye Guo -- India in COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold, by Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Ferry, Isabelle Guérin, and Govindan Venkatasubramanian -- Pandemic Security and Insecurity in the Gulf, by Neha Vora -- Hidden Vulnerability and Inequality: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Singapore, by Sulfikar Amir -- Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, by Sherihan Radi -- Part III: Policing and Protest -- Civil Rights International: The Fight Against Racism Has Always Been Global, by Keisha N. Blain -- Rage and Uprising, by Mustafa Dikeç -- Defund the Police and Refund the Communities, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- Policing's History Argues Against Reform, by Simon Balto -- Can I Get a Witness?, by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder -- As American as Child Separation, by Rachel Nolan -- Protests Against Police Brutality Go Global, by David Schmidt -- Part IV: Viral Biopolitics -- To Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic, by Julie Livingston -- American Eldercide, by Margaret Morganroth Gullette.
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