The Pandemic in Britain
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The Pandemic in Britain

COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

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The Pandemic in Britain

COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

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This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity.

Arguing that institutionalized corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, the author contends that the UK government's catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena.

The Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000891652
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Sociologia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: anatomy of the UK pandemic
  12. 1 The road to lockdown
  13. 2 NHS shortages and the ventilator challenge
  14. 3 Neoliberalism and the crisis of welfare
  15. 4 Premature unlockings and the later lockdowns
  16. 5 Border insecurities
  17. 6 Communicative ambivalence and test and trace
  18. 7 Mask scepticism
  19. 8 Freedom day
  20. Conclusions: beyond freedom?
  21. Index