The Organisation of Irresponsibility?

Reassessing Covid-19 in Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74777-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 347, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged us to rethink how contemporary states navigate crises. Despite the extraordinary transformations of 2020–22, existing inequalities and power imbalances proved remarkably resilient. This volume argues that post-neoliberal states and governing classes were unequal to the historical moment, learning little about how to adapt to wider political, socio-economic, and ecological challenges. Bringing together critical perspectives, the book highlights how decision-making, leadership, and policy responses were inseparable from political power structures and societal contexts. The volume shows how crisis governance is actively contested, resisted, and shaped by social groups - and how social cleavages are either deepened or challenged in times of crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kerr, Ewan

Bužinkic, Emina

Foley, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Ewan Kerr is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK. A political sociologist, his most recent articles have been published in Scottish Affairs, Critical Sociology, The Political Quarterly, and Economic and Industrial Democracy.

Emina Bužinkic is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia. Her work on refugee racialization, migrant labour, and transnational solidarities appears in various journals. She is a member of AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges editorial collective.

James Foley is a senior lecturer in politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the UK PI of the ENDURE project and the author of several books on Scottish and British politics in the context of debates about globalisation and nationalism.