Pandemic Exposures - Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus

For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemedto place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic andsocial life. Yetthis simple alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created andrevealed, not just between health and wealth but also around morality,knowledge, governance,culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from acrossthe social sciences, conducting research on six continents, to reflect on the multipleways thecoronavirus has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every partof the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by thepandemic have bothhastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. Anindispensable volume,Pandemic Exposuresprovides an illuminatinganalysis of this watershedmoment and its possible aftermath.