The Long Year: A 2020 Reader

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The Long Year

A 2020 Reader

Edited by: Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
With contributions by: Andy Horowitz , Éric Charmes , Max Rousseau , Adam Tooze , Joan Wallach Scott , Andrew Lakoff , Keisha N. Blain , Natalia Molina , Marcia Chatelain , Michelle Cera , Gilles Guiheux , Ye Guo , Renyou Hou , Manon Laurent , Jun Li , Anne-Valérie Ruinet , Govindan Venkatasubramanian , Isabelle Guérin , Mathieu Ferry , Marine Al Dahdah , Neha Vora , Sulfikar Amir , Sherihan Radi , Mustafa Dikeç , Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor , Simon Balto , Jeffrey Aaron Snyder , Rachel Nolan , David Schmidt , Julie Livingston , Margaret Morganroth Gullette , Xiaowei Wang , Priscilla Wald , Evan Lieberman , Warwick Anderson , Julia Foulkes , Soledad Álvarez Velasco , Sophie Lewis , Guobin Yang , Sophie Gonick , Margaret O'Mara , Alfonso Fierro , Erick Corrêa , Ananya Roy , Gianpaolo Biaocchi , Jake Carlson , Quentin Ravelli , Jean-Paul Gagnon , Rikki J. Dean , Afsoun Afsahi , Emily Beausoleil , Selen A. Ercan , Miguel Centeno , Gautam Bhan , Joanne Randa Nucho , Yarimar Bonilla , Jacob A.C. Remes , Warren Breckman , Cordula Dittmer , Daniel F. Lorenz , Kathryn Cai , Eric Klinenberg , David S. Barnes , Kavita Sivaramakrishnan and Merlin Chowkwanyun

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Thomas J. Sugrue is Julius Silver Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and director of the NYU Cities Collaborative. He is author or editor of eight books, including The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996) and Neoliberal Cities (2020).

Caitlin Zaloom is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. Her books include Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost (2020) and Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006). She is editor in chief of Public Books.

Reviews

Jennifer C. Lena, coauthor of Measuring Culture:
Here, we see some of our greatest thinkers and writers make sense of a year unlike any other—a plague year, a year of liberation talk, a year of failed states, and resilient communities. This book’s scope is global, its authors diverse in their expertise and perspective, and very accomplished in their fields.

Shamus Khan, coauthor of Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus:
A tremendous set of insights from an exceptional group of scholars, presented in short pieces that are digestible in one sitting. A wonderful chronicling of an extraordinary year.

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Social Sciences Political Science Political Science, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Preexisting Conditions Thomas J. Sugrue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I Diagnosing the Crises
PANDEMICS AS HISTORY Andy Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
IT’S THE GEOGRAPHY, STUPID! Planetary Urbanization Revealed Éric Charmes and Max Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND THE CORONA SHOCK Adam Tooze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
THE JOB OF CRITICAL THINKING NOW Joan Wallach Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
PART II Essential Work
“THE SUPPLY CHAIN MUST CONTINUE” Andrew Lakoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
THE ENDURING DISPOSABILITY OF LATINX WORKERS Natalia Molina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
FAST FOOD, PRECARIOUS WORKERS Marcia Chatelain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
MOTHERS, MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE PANDEMIC Michelle Cera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
WORKING IN CHINA IN THE COVID- 19 ERA Gilles Guiheux, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet and Ye Guo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
INDIA IN COVID- 19 A Tragedy Foretold Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Ferry, Isabelle Guérin and Govindan Venkatasubramanian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
PANDEMIC SECURITY AND INSECURITY IN THE GULF Neha Vora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
HIDDEN VULNERABILITY AND INEQUALITY The COVID- 19 Pandemic in Singapore Sulfikar Amir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC ON GENDER INEQUALITY AND GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA Sherihan Radi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
PART III Policing and Protest
CIVIL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL The Fight Against Racism Has Always Been Global Keisha N. Blain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
RAGE AND UPRISING Mustafa Dikeç Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
DEFUND THE POLICE AND REFUND THE COMMUNITIES Keeanga- Yamahtta Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
POLICING’S HISTORY ARGUES AGAINST REFORM Simon Balto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
CAN I GET A WITNESS? Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
AS AMERICAN AS CHILD SEPARATION Rachel Nolan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY GO GLOBAL David Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
PART IV Viral Biopolitics
TO HEAL THE BODY, HEAL THE BODY POLITIC Julie Livingston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
AMERICAN ELDERCIDE Margaret Morganroth Gullette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
THE WORLD IS A FACTORY FARM Xiaowei Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
LISTEN TO THE BIRDS Priscilla Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
RISK FOR “US” OR FOR “THEM”? The Comparative Politics of Diversity and Responses to AIDS and COVID- 19 Evan Lieberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
THINK LIKE A VIRUS Warwick Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
PART V Pandemic Lives
FOR THE LOVE OF STRANGERS Julia Foulkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
WHERE IS SHE? Soledad Álvarez Velasco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
GRIEF CIRCLING Sophie Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
IN CHINA, PANDEMIC DIARIES UNITE AND DIVIDE A NATION Guobin Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
PART VI Private Crises in Public Spaces
THE VIOLENCE OF URBAN VACANCY Sophie Gonick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
THE LIMITS OF TELECOMMUTING Margaret O’Mara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
A QUIET DISASTER Mexico City, Mexico Alfonso Fierro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
HEALTH SELF- DEFENSE IN A SÃO PAULO FAVELA Erick Corrêa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
EMERGENCY URBANISM Ananya Roy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
A CRISIS TOO BIG TO WASTE What Comes After Private Housing Fails? Gianpaolo Baiocchi and H. Jacob Carlson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
PART VII The Failure of the State
COVID BLINDNESS Quentin Ravelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
FIVE LESSONS FOR DEMOCRACY FROM THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC Jean- Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil and Selen A. Ercan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
CAN DEMOCRACIES HANDLE SYSTEMIC RISKS? Miguel Centeno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
THE VULNERABLE FOUNDATIONS OF INDIA’S URBANISM Gautam Bhan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
PANDEMICS IN THE POST- GRID IMAGINARY Joanne Randa Nucho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
PANDEMIC DÉJÀ VU Yarimar Bonilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
COVID- 19 IN A BORDER NATION Jacob A. C. Remes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
PART VIII Alternative Futures
ARE WE IN DENIAL ABOUT DENIAL? Rodrigo Nunes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449
CAN THE CROWD SPEAK? Warren Breckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
THE PANDEMIC’S BRIEF DISASTER UTOPIA Daniel F. Lorenz and Cordula Dittmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
BUILDING A SOCIETY THAT VALUES CARE Kathryn Cai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
REBUILDING SOLIDARITY IN A BROKEN WORLD Eric Klinenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
PART IX Further Reading
PANDEMIC SYLLABUS David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	515
SOURCE CREDITS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	529
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	535

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January 25, 2022

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9780231555586

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https://doi.org/10.7312/sugr20452

eBook ISBN: 9780231555586

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pandemic; social unrest; Black Lives Matter; protest; injustice; police violence; inequality; capitalism; democracy; Trump; January 6; election; Big Lie; COVID; COVID-19

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