1st Edition

Post-Covid Transformations

Edited By Kevin Gray, Barry K. Gills Copyright 2023
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. Towards this aim, the contributing authors raise a number of key questions. First, what is likely to be the impact of the pandemic on the current global order based on neoliberal... Read more

Introduction: post-COVID transformations

Kevin Gray and Barry Gills

1. Pandemics in global and historical perspective

Robert A. Denemark

2. Trade, health and social reproduction in a COVID world

Silke Trommer

3. Shared pretenses for collective inaction: the economic growth imperative, COVID-19, and climate change

Diana Stuart, Brian Petersen and Ryan Gunderson

4. On living in an already- unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations

Paul James and Manfred B. Steger

5. Global transitioning: beyond the Covid- 19 pandemic

James H. Mittelman

6. Vaccine nationalism: contested relationships between COVID- 19 and globalization

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou

7. India’s pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

8. Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea

Kwang-Yeong Shin

9. A new deal after COVID-19

Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta

10. The post-pandemic world and the prospect for global justice: a commentary

Habibul Haque Khondker

Biography

Kevin Gray is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. His research interests relate to the political economy of development, with a regional focus on East Asia.  He has researched widely on the region, and in particular, on the political economy of both North and South Korea. He also has interests in Gramscian approaches to international relations and in theories of late development and state formation. 

Barry Gills is Editor in Chief of Globalizations and Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has written widely on World System theory, neoliberalism, globalization, global crises, democracy, resistance and transformative praxis.