
The Organisation of Irresponsibility?
Reassessing COVID-19 in Europe
Brill (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Hardback
247 pages
978-90-04-74777-7 (ISBN)
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged us to rethink how contemporary states navigate crises. Despite the extraordinary transformations of 2020-22, existing inequalities and power imbalances proved remarkably resilient. This volume argues that post-neoliberal states and governing classes were unequal to the historical moment, learning little about how to adapt to wider political, socio-economic, and ecological challenges. Bringing together critical perspectives, the book highlights how decision-making, leadership, and policy responses were inseparable from political power structures and societal contexts. The volume shows how crisis governance is actively contested, resisted, and shaped by social groups - and how social cleavages are either deepened or challenged in times of crisis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74777-7 (9789004747777)
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Ewan Kerr is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK. A political sociologist, his most recent articles have been published in Scottish Affairs, Critical Sociology, The Political Quarterly, and Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Emina Buzinkic is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia. Her work on refugee racialization, migrant labour, and transnational solidarities appears in various journals. She is a member of AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges editorial collective.
James Foley is a senior lecturer in politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the UK PI of the ENDURE project and the author of several books on Scottish and British politics in the context of debates about globalisation and nationalism.
Emina Buzinkic is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia. Her work on refugee racialization, migrant labour, and transnational solidarities appears in various journals. She is a member of AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges editorial collective.
James Foley is a senior lecturer in politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the UK PI of the ENDURE project and the author of several books on Scottish and British politics in the context of debates about globalisation and nationalism.