Abstract
This chapter provides an overarching framework for exploring the relationships between people, place and policy and living with the COVID-19 pandemic. It recognises that these three Ps are interdependent; people are embedded in places and local and national policy is developed and applied to places. The chapter starts by exploring the debate on risk societies, non-calculable uncertainty, and the emergence of Jenga capitalism as a precursor for exploring the impacts of Covid-19. It then explores the relationship between globalisation and disease, before outlining national responses to COVID-19, including the emergence of socially distanced economies. The chapter also considers some dimensions of life after the pandemic, including a discussion of the impacts on policy and taxation. In so doing, the Chapter highlights Covid-19 as a cultural inflection point. The Chapter concludes by providing an outline of the contributions to the edited collection of the same name, to which this chapter forms the introduction.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Living with Pandemics |
Subtitle of host publication | People, Place and Policy |
Editors | John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon |
Place of Publication | Cheltenham |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 2-34 |
Number of pages | 33 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781800373594 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781800373587 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Aug 2021 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- people
- place
- policy
- cultural inflection point
- risk
- globalisation