商品描述
A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented--but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers.
Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets.
An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy,
Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic's first eighteen months.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
對 COVID-19 疫情作為政治經濟斷裂的關鍵且基於證據的描述，揭示了潛在的權力鬥爭和社會不公。
COVID-19 疫情的來臨代表了工作、金融市場、跨境流動和教育常規的非凡中斷。對此所採取的政策被稱為前所未有——但風險和獎勵的分配卻絕非如此。當資產擁有者、外包商、平台和住在寬敞住宅中的人們繁榮昌盛時，其他人則面臨新的困難和危險。
前所未有？ 探討了 2020-21 年間影響英國經濟的事件，以此來理解當代資本主義的潛在動態，這些動態常常被掩蓋。它追溯了在疫情之前潛伏的「租金民族主義」的政治和文化輪廓，而這一切在 COVID-19 的影響下被加速和照亮。但它也指出了這一資本主義模式的矛盾和弱點，以及它所面臨的新反對力量。
前所未有？ 是對 COVID 經濟的實證、可接近且批判性的分析，對於任何希望理解疫情前十八個月政治和經濟動盪的人來說，都是必讀之作。
作者簡介
William Davies is a Professor in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, where he is Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. He is author of
This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain,
Nervous States: How Feeling Took over the World,
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing, and
The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition. He writes regularly for
The Guardian and
London Review of Books.
Sahil Jai Dutta is Lecturer in Political Economy at Goldsmiths and a member of the Political Economy Research Centre. His research focuses on British political economy, financialization, sovereign debt and public sector reform. He has published in Review of International Political Economy, the IPPR's
Progressive Review,
Tribune, and
OpenDemocracy.
Nick Taylor is Lecturer in Political Economy and Deputy Director of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths. He researches and publishes on unemployment and welfare as well as on the political economy of green finance. His work has appeared in
Area,
Journal of Cultural Economy, and
Capital & Class.
Martina Tazzioli is Lecturer in Politics & Technology at Goldsmiths. She is the author of
The Making of Migration: The Biopoltics of Mobility at Europe's Borders,
Spaces of Governmentality, and
Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration. She is co-editor of
Foucault and the History of our Present and
Foucault and the Making of Subjects. She sits on the editorial board of
Radical Philosophy and is an associate editor of
Politics.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
威廉·戴維斯（William Davies）是金史密斯學院（Goldsmiths）政治經濟學教授，並擔任政治經濟研究中心（Political Economy Research Centre）主任。他是《這不是正常：自由英國的崩潰》（This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain）、《焦慮的國家：情感如何主宰世界》（Nervous States: How Feeling Took over the World）、《幸福產業：政府與大企業如何向我們出售幸福》（The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing）以及《新自由主義的界限：權威、主權與競爭邏輯》（The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition）的作者。他定期為《衛報》（The Guardian）和《倫敦書評》（London Review of Books）撰寫文章。
薩希爾·賈伊·達塔（Sahil Jai Dutta）是金史密斯學院政治經濟學講師，也是政治經濟研究中心的成員。他的研究專注於英國政治經濟、金融化、主權債務和公共部門改革。他的研究成果發表於《國際政治經濟評論》（Review of International Political Economy）、IPPR的《進步評論》（Progressive Review）、《論壇》（Tribune）和《開放民主》（OpenDemocracy）。
尼克·泰勒（Nick Taylor）是金史密斯學院政治經濟學講師及政治經濟研究中心副主任。他的研究和出版工作集中於失業和福利，以及綠色金融的政治經濟學。他的作品曾發表於《區域》（Area）、《文化經濟學期刊》（Journal of Cultural Economy）和《資本與階級》（Capital & Class）。
馬丁娜·塔齊奧利（Martina Tazzioli）是金史密斯學院政治與科技講師。她是《移民的形成：歐洲邊界的生物政治》（The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders）、《治理空間》（Spaces of Governmentality）和《突尼西亞作為革命化的移民空間》（Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration）的作者。她是《福柯與我們當前歷史》（Foucault and the History of our Present）和《福柯與主體的形成》（Foucault and the Making of Subjects）的共同編輯。她還是《激進哲學》（Radical Philosophy）的編輯委員會成員，並擔任《政治》（Politics）的副編輯。
