The long year: a 2020 reader

by Sugrue, Thomas J. Zaloom, Caitlin

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Full title :The long year : a 2020 reader / edited by Thomas J. Sugrue, Caitlin Zaloom.

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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 547 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780231555586, 023155558X
oclc:on1255524988
LC Classification:HD82
Dewey Decimal:338.9

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…

Subjects

COVID-19 -- Aspect social COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects Développement économique -- 21e siècle economic development Economic development -- 21st century Equality -- Social aspects Justice raciale Police -- Political aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government… Racial justice