Pandemic response and the cost of lockdowns: global debates from humanities and social sciences
In: The politics of pandemics
Introduction: The role of humanities and social sciences at a time of crisis / Peter Sutoris and Sinéad Murphy -- The 'lockdown consensus' in the UK and the dangers of performative scientism / Anthony Mckeown -- Stopping the spread of health / Sinéad Murphy -- Pandemic response, cultural anthropology and 'the myth of the caring society' / Peter Sutoris -- Digital society, algorithmic harm, and the pandemic response / Mark Wong -- Against the logic of immunity : philosophy and the epidemic / Michael Lewis -- How the world's harshest lockdown unleashed a humanitarian crisis / Kunal R. Purohit -- Covid-19 in Angola : militarization of lockdown language and state policy in Angola / Fernandes Wanda -- The economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown policies in Argentina / Maddalena Cevese -- An analysis of the socio-economic impacts of the lockdown policy in Ghana / Samuel Adu-Gyamfi -- The Covid-19 syndemic and lessons (not) learned from past epidemics : one size doesn't fit all / Llanos Ortiz-Montero -- The proportionality of lockdowns / Kai Möller -- Lockdowns and intergenerational justice / Yossi Nehushtan -- Lockdown lived experience, illness, power and epistemic injustice / Roxana Baiasu -- What we lost in lockdown / Matthew Ratcliffe -- Do lockdowns work for women? The gendered impacts of the pandemic and policy responses / Rose Cook and Aleida Mendes Borges.