Main description:

Very interdisciplinary, with authors from a wide range of academic backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences (e.g. philosophy, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, history).

Offers five perspectives from the global South and is very global.

Book publication will coincide with the public inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, which is bound to receive significant media attention both domestically and internationally. One of the first volumes to tackle the cost of lockdowns head-on.

First systemic approach to the perspectives which non-STEM subjects bring to pandemic response and lockdowns.

Contents:

Introduction: The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences at a time of Crisis Section 1: Key Covid Concepts Re-examined 1. The 'Lockdown Consensus' in the UK and the Dangers of Performative Scientism 2. Stopping the Spread of Health 3. Pandemic Response, Cultural Anthropology and 'The Myth of the Caring Society' 4. Digital Society, Algorithmic Harm, and the Pandemic Response 5. Against the Logic of Immunity: Philosophy and the Epidemic Section 2: Pandemic Policy and the Global South 6. How the World's Harshest Lockdown Unleashed a Humanitarian Crisis 7. Covid-19 in Angola: Militarization of Lockdown Language and State Policy in Angola 8. The Economic Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown Policies in Argentina 9. An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Lockdown Policy in Ghana 10.The Covid-19 Syndemic and Lessons (Not) Learned from Past Epidemics: One Size Doesn't Fit All Section 3: Alternative Lenses on Pandemic Response 11. The Proportionality of Lockdowns 12. Lockdowns and Intergenerational Justice 13. Lockdown Lived Experience, Illness, Power and Epistemic Injustice 14. What We Lost in Lockdown 15. Do Lockdowns Work for Women? The Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic and Policy Responses