Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context 1
5. Part 1: Politics, Experts and the State
6. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory notes on its “epistemic regime” 25
7. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals 43
8. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians? 59
9. Emergency Europe after Covid-19 75
10. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic 93
11. Part 2: Globalization, History and the Future
12. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization 107
13. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and Covid-19 123
14. The Political Theology of Covid-19: A Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes 139
15. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 157
16. The Pandemic as a Global Social Total Fact 171
17. Part 3: The Social and Alternatives
18. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy 191
19. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic 209
20. Security for whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic 227
21. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99% 243
22. Notes on Contributors 257
23. Index 261