The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial revolution with aggravated social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. This book argues that the virus reveals the deep problems of our dominant mode of production and consumption.
The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial revolution with aggravated social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. This book argues that the virus reveals the deep problems of our dominant mode of production and consumption.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books have been published in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian, Polish and Korean. Among his recent books in English are Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021); and Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, Third Edition (Cambridge University Press 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part One: The 21st century presents itself 1. The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity 2. Abyssal capitalism: The pandemic as business 3. The open veins of inequality and discrimination 4. Community resistance and self-organization Part Two: The future starts now 5. Three scenarios: Between hell redux and kairós 6. Towards an insurgent, intercultural and cosmopolitan declaration of human rights and duties 7. The paradigmatic transition: A world to accommodate many worlds 8. First steps of the paradigmatic transition Epilogue: What if we failed? To be read in 2050 References Index
Preface Part One: The 21st century presents itself 1. The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity 2. Abyssal capitalism: The pandemic as business 3. The open veins of inequality and discrimination 4. Community resistance and self-organization Part Two: The future starts now 5. Three scenarios: Between hell redux and kairós 6. Towards an insurgent, intercultural and cosmopolitan declaration of human rights and duties 7. The paradigmatic transition: A world to accommodate many worlds 8. First steps of the paradigmatic transition Epilogue: What if we failed? To be read in 2050 References Index
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