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Pandemonium - Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (Paperback)
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Pandemonium - Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (Paperback)
Series: Vagabonds
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Loot Price R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan,
China, and quickly spread across the world. Since then, the
pandemic has exposed the brutal limits of care and health under
capitalism. Pandemonium underscores the turning-points between
neoliberalism and authoritarian government, crystallised by
ineffective responses to the pandemic. In so doing, it questions
capitalist understandings of order and disorder, of health and
disease, and the new world borders which proliferate through
distinctly capitalist definitions of risk and uncertainty. From the
origins of the crisis at the crossroads of fossil-fuelled pollution
and the privatisation of healthcare in China, Angela Mitropoulos
follows the virus' spread as governments embraced reckless
strategies of 'containment' and 'herd immunity.' Exoticist
explanations of the pandemic and the recourse to quarantines and
travel bans racialised the disease, while the reluctance to expand
healthcare capacity displaced the risk onto private households and
private wealth. Tracing iterations of borders through the histories
of population theory, the political contract and epidemiology,
Mitropoulos discusses the circuits of capitalist value in
pharmaceuticals, protective equipment and catastrophe bonds. These
and the treatment of populations as capitalist 'stock' in demands
to 'reopen the economy' reveal a world where the very definition of
'the economy' and infrastructure are fundamentally shifting. Much
will depend on how these are understood, and debts are reckoned, in
the months and years to come.
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