Roland Benedikter, Karim Fathi

The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings

Steps towards Multi-Resilience

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Produktbeschreibung

COVID provoked a multi-dimensional crisis that overwhelmed existing concepts of social resilience that focus on a singular crisis. This volume proposes an alternative. In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations on how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis has proven to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance the universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, making them appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implementing multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781642598087
• ISBN-10: 1642598089
• Artikelnr.: 64694538

Autorenporträt

Dr Roland Benedikter is Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research, Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Italy, and Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Berlin. Dr Karim Fathi is a lecturer and policy advisor with focus on Resilience Studies and Interdisciplinary Communication. He is Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and advises authorities, NGO's and companies in the field of Multi-Resilience.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Overview and Summary
part 1
The Coronavirus Crisis
1 Introduction "Do Nothing" or, an Epochal Crisis
2 Systemic Unpreparedness Inducing a Variety of Psychological Reactions
3 The Branches and Social Strata Hardest Hit A List to Be Carefully
Remembered for the Next Systemic Rupture
4 Were Nature and the Environment "Winners" of the Crisis? Disputed
"Improvements" and Their Flip Sides
5 Children and Relationships
6 Labour and the Economy "Generation Corona"
7 Corona and Re-Globalisation 1 Sharpening Awareness about the Differences
between Political Systems and Their Growing Asymmetries
8 A Battle for Values and Transformation Not Confined to Bilateral
Competition, but Spanning the Globe
9 Unprecedented Penetrative Depth Uplifting Technology, Changing Sexuality,
Questioning Science?
10 Corona and Re-Globalisation 2 Creating Conscience for National and
International Reforms
11 Intellectual Rhetoric between Cheap "Humanistic" Appeal and Kitsch
12 "Humanised" Technology Instead of a New Humanism?
13 A Boost to "Post-human Hybrid Intelligence" Such as Biological Espionage
and Sentiment Analysis?
14 Striking a Balance Was Corona a Watershed for Western Humanism and the
Basic Rationality of the Enlightenment?
15 The Vast Variety of Political Instrumentalisations
16 Three More Far-reaching Aspects within Global Democracies and Open
Societies Confirmation Bias, "Republican" Turn and Re-Globalisation Drive
part 2
The Simultaneousness of Local, National and Global Effects
17 An Unprecedented Crisis Accelerating the (Temporary?) Rupture of
Advanced Life Patterns - Including Gender Role Models in Democracies
18 "Unsocial Sociability" and the Re-shaping of the Global Order
Anthropology and Politics Intertwined
19 Medical Diplomacy, or: The Great Divide of Principles over and after
Corona More "Do It Alone" - or More Cooperation?
20 Don't Forget the Bizarre, the Surreal and the Perfidious From Mona Lisa
to Sharon Stone and Global Terror
21 Coronavirus Crisis Social Psychology Between Disorientation, Infodemic
and the Need to Understand
22 Conspiracy Theories Misusing the Crisis for Legitimating the Absurd in
Times of "Fake News"
23 The Perspective The Real Question is Not about covid-19, but about "the
World after"
part 3
The Corona Challenge: Multi-Resilience for an Interconnected World Ridden
by Crisis Bundles
24 In Search of Examples of Efficient Resilience From the Evolutionary
Teachings of Bats to Regional Self-administration within Political
Autonomies to a "Flexible" Handling of Constitutions
25 Crisis Resistance in the Face of Corona and in Anticipation of Potential
Future Pandemics A Short Overview of Different Options of Socio-political
Responses
26 The Primordial Path to Follow Enhancing Resilience. Basic Philosophical
Assumptions and Their Implications for Crisis-policy Design
27 Revisioning the Concept of Resilience A Necessary Step (Not Only) after
Corona
28 Progressing from Resilience to Multi-resilience Two Basic Approaches
28.1 Prerequisites: Relevant Criteria
28.2 Complexify: Multi-resilience in a Systemic Perspective
28.3 Simplify: Multi-resilience in an Action-oriented Perspective
29 Five Principles of Multi-resilience
29.1 Principle 1: Fostering Individual Resilience
29.2 Principle 2: Integrating Centralised and Decentralised Decision-making
and Implementation
29.3 Principle 3: Problem-solving Practices with Knowns and Unknowns
29.4 Principle 4: Supporting and Enhancing Collective Intelligence through
Participatory and Cross-sectoral Knowledge Management and Integration
29.5 Principle 5: Fostering "Resilience Culture" by Stimulating and
Facilitating Collective Reasoning and Cohesion
30 Summary. Multi-resilience A Crucial Topic to Shape "Globalisation 2.0"
part 4
Requirements for a Post-Corona World
31 The Corona Effect and "Diseasescape" Towards Weaker, but More Realistic
Globalisation and Transnationalisation?
32 The Uncertainty about the Future of covid-19 Short-term Scenarios versus
Big-picture Trends
33 Technological Requirements Six Trends
33.1 Remote Working
33.2 eLearning
33.3 Telehealth
33.4 E-commerce and On-demand Economy
33.5 Automatisation
33.6 Increasing Use of Immersive Technologies
34 Towards a Post-Corona World Seven Upcoming Conflict Lines Open Societies
Should Prepare for
34.1 Nationalism versus Globalism
34.2 Freedom versus Safety
34.3 Professionalism versus Populism
34.4 Class: Rich versus Poor
34.5 Ethnicity (Racism)
34.6 Gender
34.7 Generation: Young versus Old
35 The Post-Corona World Potentials and Visions for a "Better Globalised"
International System
35.1 Idea Potentials: Policy-relevant Contributions by Intellectuals,
Ecologists and Futurists
35.2 Universal Basic Income as a Driver towards Better Socio-economic
Resilience?
35.3 Post-Growth and Degrowth as Responses to the Economic and Ecological
Challenges in a Post-Corona World?
part 5
Post-Corona Policy Design
36 Chances and Limits of Resilience The Development Paradox and the
Increasing Danger of Man-made Disasters with Multi-sectoral Side Effects
37 Towards a Broader and More Integrated Policy of Future Preparedness
Contributions from Selected Guiding Concepts
37.1 A Brief Outline of Three Contemporary Coping Concepts: Development,
Sustainability, Resilience
37.2 Development versus Sustainability versus Resilience: Similarities,
Fault Lines and Potential (Realistic) Complementarities
37.3 Collective Wisdom as the Missing Connecting Principle towards
Multi-Resilience?
38 Fostering Local, National and International Paths towards
Multi-resilience Leverage Points for Interrelated Social Change Bottom-up
and Top-down
38.1 Education Programs for Individual Resilience
38.2 Bottom-up Transformational Impulses via Building Critical Masses for
Positive Change
38.3 Experimental Prototyping Projects
38.4 Building Bridges between Subsystems
38.5 Methods of Communicative Complexity Management
38.6 Towards the Integration of Standards?
part 6
Recommendations for a Multi-Resilient Post-Corona World
39 "Health Terror"? Towards an Adequate Framework for a Post-Corona
Socio-political Philosophy "Resistance" and Power Critique Will Not Suffice
40 Seven Strategic Recommendations for Pro-positive Multi-resilient
Policymaking in the Post-Corona World of Open Societies
40.1 Recommendation 1: Include Competency Development to Become a Crucial
Part of the Education System
40.2 Recommendation 2: Strengthen European-Western Simulation Methodology
and Strategic Foresight
40.3 Recommendation 3: Strengthen Future Anticipation Capacities and
(Potentially) Their Integration. From the Futures Cone and the Futures
Diamond to Futures Literacy
40.4 Recommendation 4: Improve Communication through "Complexity Workers"
40.5 Recommendation 5: Refine Multi-level Governance
40.6 Recommendation 6: Expand and Improve International Cooperation
40.7 Recommendation 7: Sharpen Global "Crisis Automatisms" and
Interconnected Responsibility Patterns on the Way to Global Governance
41 Recommendations for Global Post-Corona Policymaking in an Increasingly
Multipolar World
41.1 Five Policy Trajectories Proposed by the University of the United
Nations - Leading to the Key Concept of "Futures Literacy"
41.2 The Forgotten Perspective: Instilling a More Encompassing and
Trans-systemic Concept of Health and Healing?
part 7
Outlook. The Coronavirus Legacy: A "New World" Ahead - or back to Business
as Usual?
42 The (Productively) Ambiguous Post-Corona Vision A "New World" Ahead?
43 "Corona Positivism" The Global Pandemic as an Unprecedented "Chance" for
Radical Transformation - or Even as the Epochal Example for What (Social)
Art Should Achieve?
44 Corona as a Driver of Re-globalisation towards Post-Corona Globalisation
45 A Post-Corona Core Task Re-positioning the Open Systems of Europe and
the West by the Means of Multi-resilience
46 An End to Geopolitical Rivalry? Not Likely - Despite Some Positive
Signals
47 Back to Business as Usual - Systemic Improvements at the "Evo-devo"
Interface?
48 Integrating the Obvious Post-Corona, Multi-Resilience and "Futures
Literacy": "Bring Together What belongs Together"
49 Corona and Emerging New Responsibility Patterns
50 Outlook: A Post-Corona World in the Making Towards Difficult, but
Feasible Innovation - for the Sake of a More Pro-positive Re-globalisation
 Afterword
Manfred B. Steger
Bibliographic References
Index