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Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. 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. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. 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. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
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