Christos Boukalas (UK. Professor at Northumbria Law School)

Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come

Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an in-depth critical account of the stateâ s responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises. It is thus the first study to address both crises ensuing from the pandemic, and to synthesise the responses to them in a comprehensive account of political power.

Produktdetails

• Directions and Developments in Criminal Justice and Law
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781032299990
• ISBN-10: 1032299991
• Artikelnr.: 64360178

Autorenporträt

Christos Boukalas is a senior lecturer in Northumbria Law School. He develops a political theory of law, based on legal and state theory. His research focuses on the advent of a new form of law and state in the course of the 21st century. He has widely published critical accounts on British and American security law and policy, including the monograph Homeland Security, its Law and its State.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the twin crises and the capitalist state
Part I. Biosecurity
2. Medical power
3. The threat
4. Biosecurity law
5. Protect the NHS (the spectacle of public health)
6. Cancel society
7. The knowledge of biosecurity
Part II. Economic Collapse
8. Fear vs fear
9. This is not a normal crisis
10. The great mothball
11. Sacrificial labour
12. Workfare
13. Pandemic distribution
14. Towards a dual economy: welfare for capital, workfare for everyone else
Part III. The State to Come
15. Biopolitics and threat governmentality
16. From there is no alternative to whatever it takes
17. The rule of law and endless pseudo-necessity
18. Personal responsibility and the irresponsible state
19. Neoliberal despotism
20. Overcoming the order of fear
21. Postscript: Pericles and the plague