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1 online resource (xii, 547 pages) |
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Public books series
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Public books series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprung not from new risks but known dangers. The world-like many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnosis. 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. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang, Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Part IV: Viral Biopolitics -- To Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic, by Julie Livingston -- American Eldercide, by Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- The World Is a Factory Farm, by Xiaowei Wang -- Listen to the Birds, by Priscilla Wald -- Risk for "Us" or for "Them"? The Comparative Politics of Diversity and Responses to AIDS and COVID-19, by Evan Lieberman -- Think Like a Virus, by Warwick Anderson -- Part V: Pandemic Lives -- For the Love of Strangers, by Julia Foulkes -- Where Is She?, by Soledad Álvarez Velasco -- Grief Circling, by Sophie Lewis |
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In China, Pandemic Diaries Unite and Divide a Nation, by Guobin Yang -- Part VI: Private Crises in Public Spaces -- The Violence of Urban Vacancy, by Sophie Gonick -- The Limits of Telecommuting, by Margaret O'Mara -- A Quiet Disaster: Mexico City, Mexico, by Alfonso Fierro -- Health Self-Defense in a São Paulo Favela, by Erick Corrêa -- Emergency Urbanism, by Ananya Roy -- A Crisis Too Big to Waste: What Comes After Private Housing Fails?, by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and H. Jacob Carlson -- Part VII: The Failure of the State -- COVID Blindness, by Quentin Ravelli |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic development -- 21st century.
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Equality -- Social aspects.
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Police -- Political aspects.
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Racial justice.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General |
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects |
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Economic development |
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Equality -- Social aspects |
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Racial justice |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Added Author |
Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- editor.
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Zaloom, Caitlin, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Long year New York : Columbia University Press, 2021 9780231204521 (DLC) 2021027454 |
| ISBN |
9780231555586 electronic book |
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023155558X electronic book |
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9780231204521 hardcover |
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9780231204538 paperback |
| Standard No. |
302578781 |
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