Pandemic Power

The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique

AvMuriel Blaive

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien CEU Press Perspectives

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Beskrivning

Pandemic Power is a thought-provoking exploration of how the response to the Covid pandemic has undermined our understanding of science, freedom, and democracy. It delivers a searing critique of policies and narratives that have, in fact, fueled the rise of the extreme right in many countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-02
Mått:190 x 210 x 130 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:CEU Press Perspectives
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789633869338

Utforska kategorier

Socialt arbete och välfärd inom Samhälle och politik
Medicin: allmänt inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Muriel Blaive, Ph.D., is a socio-political historian of postwar, communist, and post-communist Central Europe, in particular of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, with a specialization in oral history and everyday life history.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction - The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy, Chapter 1 - Laying the Groundwork for Digital Authoritarianism: Social Compliance and the Normalization of Fear, Chapter 2 - Collateral Damage, Censorship, and Hubris: The Practical Reality of the Lockdown, Chapter 3 - The Instrumentalization of Science and Expertise during Covid, Chapter 4 - A Reckoning about the Covid Measures Is Necessary and Urgent, Conclusion - Disquieting Echoes of History, or Covid and the Liberal Left, Postscript, Notes, Bibliography, Index