Pandemic Power

The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-963-386-933-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

Reihe: CEU Press Perspectives

Pandemic Power is a thought-provoking exploration of how the response to the Covid pandemic has undermined our understanding of science, freedom, and democracy. It delivers a searing critique of policies and narratives that have, in fact, fueled the rise of the extreme right in many countries.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaive, Muriel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction - The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy, Chapter 1 - Laying the Groundwork for Digital Authoritarianism: Social Compliance and the Normalization of Fear, Chapter 2 - Collateral Damage, Censorship, and Hubris: The Practical Reality of the Lockdown, Chapter 3 - The Instrumentalization of Science and Expertise during Covid, Chapter 4 - A Reckoning about the Covid Measures Is Necessary and Urgent, Conclusion - Disquieting Echoes of History, or Covid and the Liberal Left, Postscript, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Muriel Blaive, Ph.D., is a socio-political historian of postwar, communist, and post-communist Central Europe, in particular of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, with a specialization in oral history and everyday life history.