Political Philosophy in a Pandemic (eBook, PDF)

Routes to a More Just Future
Redaktion: Niker, Fay; Bhattacharya, Aveek

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Government lockdowns, school closures, mass unemployment, health and wealth inequality.

Political Philosophy in a Pandemic asks us, where do we go from here? What are the ethics of our response to a radically changed, even more unequal society, and how do we seize the moment for enduring change?

Addressing the moral and political implications of pandemic response from states and societies worldwide, the 20 essays collected here cover the most pressing debates relating to the biggest public health crisis in the last century. Discussing the pandemic in five key parts covering social welfare, economic justice, democratic relations, speech and misinformation, and the relationship between justice and crisis, this book reflects the fruitful combination of political theory and philosophy in laying the theoretical and practical foundations for justice in the long-term.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350225916
• Artikelnr.: 62181874

Autorenporträt

Fay Niker is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling, UK. Aveek Bhattacharya is Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation, a non-partisan think tank based in London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors Foreword by Onora O'Neill
Baroness O'Neill of Bengrave 1. Introduction
Aveek Battacharya (Social Market Foundation
UK)
Fay Niker (University of Stirling
UK) Part I Social welfare and vulnerability 2. Risk
disadvantage and the COVID-19 crisis
Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford
UK)
Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel) 3. How should we distribute scarce medical resources in a pandemic? Sara Van Goozen (University of York
UK) 4. Assessing the impact of school closures on children through a vulnerability lens
Nicolás Brando (Queen's University Belfast
UK)
Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (São Paulo University
Brazil) 5. Adequate housing in a pandemic
David Jenkins (University of Otago
Canada)
Katy Wells (University of Warwick
UK)
Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia
Canada) Part II Economic justice 6. Should the older generation pay more of the COVID-19 debt? David Yarrow (University of Edinburgh
UK) 7. Rebuilding social insurance to end economic precarity
Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen
Netherlands) 8. Pandemic solidarity and universal basic income
Diana Popescu (King's College London
UK) Part III Democratic relations 9. Legitimating pandemic-responsive policy: Whose voices count when? Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling
UK) 10. Living alone under lockdown
Felix Pinkert (University of Vienna
Austria) 11. Should we hold elections during a pandemic? Alexandru Volacu (University of Bucharest
Romania) 12. The pandemic and our democratic way of life
Marc Stears (University of Sydney
Australia) Part IV Speech and (mis)information 13.Coronavirus misinformation
social media
and freedom of speech
Jeffrey Howard (University College London
UK) 14. What is the democratic state's obligation of transparency in times of crisis? Rebecca Lowe (King's College London
UK) 15. Deferring to expertise in public health emergencies
Viktor Ivankovic (Institute of Philosophy
Croatia)
Lovro Savic (University of Oxford
UK) 16. Should we shame those who ignore social distancing guidelines? Paul Billingham (University of Oxford
UK)
Tom Parr (University of Warwick
UK) Part V Crisis and justice 17. Harnessing the epistemic value of crises for just ends
Matthew Adams (Indiana University Bloomington
USA)
Fay Niker (University of Stirling
UK) 18. Living through the pandemic: an experiment in egalitarian living for the middle classes? Anca Gheaus (Central European University
Austria) 19. Coronavirus and climate change: What can the former teach us about the latter? Julia Hermann (Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands)
Katharina Bauer (Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands)
Christian Baatz (University of Kiel
Germany) 20. Pandemic as political theory
Adam Swift (University College London
UK) Index