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Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x20 mm, weight: 454 g, 17 halftones, 7 tables
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Dec-2024
  • Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN-10: 0226836886
  • ISBN-13: 9780226836881
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x20 mm, weight: 454 g, 17 halftones, 7 tables
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Dec-2024
  • Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN-10: 0226836886
  • ISBN-13: 9780226836881
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A forceful critique of how and why states failed to protect marginalized communities in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications of ignoring the existing emergencies that exacerbated the pandemic’s devastating effects.
 

The COVID-19 pandemic inaugurated a state of emergency unprecedented for most Americans. Some could observe this emergency from the relative safety of their homes, but those in marginalized communities, without access to the same privileges, were forced to risk their health and well-being. 
 
In Emergency, sociologist Claire Laurier Decoteau documents and theorizes the emergencies of COVID-19 by looking at the experiences of Chicagoans and the policies that shaped their lives. She describes the uneven racial impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx Chicagoans as a crisis within a crisis, caused by a convergence of emergencies: a state of emergency that protected white supremacy and wealth, the slow emergencies racially marginalized populations have faced for decades due to the long-term gutting of care infrastructure and deindustrialization, and the sacrifice “essential workers” were asked to make to protect the United States economy. As Decoteau shows, the city’s “racial equity” project used data to determine which communities would be given scarce resources, but once positivity or death rates declined, resources were retracted and redistributed elsewhere. City officials thus attempted to manage these converging emergencies by manipulating epidemiological data and orchestrating systems for interpreting that data. Decoteau makes clear that the emergencies precipitated by COVID-19 long predated the pandemic, and that we will continue to live with their compounding crises if we do not tackle their structural underpinnings.

Recenzijos

"Claire Decoteaus Emergency is a vital read. It is a sociological antidote for our growing collective amnesia about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, multiple ravages of racial biocapitalism. May we heed its many lessons." -- Michael Rodrķguez-Muńiz, University of California, Berkeley "In this meticulously researched and rigorously theorized book, Claire Decoteau paints a disturbing picture of how during the COVID pandemic decades of structural neglect in social welfare and public health accumulated into predictable racial excess  mortality and the sacrifice of frontline workers. Decoteau issues a distress signal to address the fundamental causes of racial and socioeconomic inequity. If unheeded, we are bound to live in perpetual emergencies." -- Stefan Timmermans, co-author of 'The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels' "With intimacy and care, Claire Decoteau takes readers into the lives of Black and Latinx Chicagoans whose worlds were uprooted and ended by the novel coronavirus. A local study with global implications and a work of painstaking ethnography,  Emergency: Covid-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life  lays out how Chicagos technocratic and bureaucratic Covid response may have given public health officials a lot of data to report, but it did not address the root causes of our racially disparate maps. Emergency is useful for those trying right now to stop the next racialized pandemic, and will be an essential oral history record for scholars of racism and health in the future." -- Steven W. Thrasher, author of the award-winning book 'The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide' " . . . Decoteaus overall point that racially marginalized groups have been suffering from multiple demics, which were simply exacerbated by COVID-19 is crucial, and exceptionally well made. Her comprehensive study will provide a powerful example for those wishing to understand the pandemic. Now, more than five years after the pandemics start, the virus is still circulating, and many people are living with long COVID. Emergency is a stark reminder that the deep divisions made visible by COVID-19 are still present in our society. If we do not sit up and pay attention, then the death toll of societies most marginalized will continue to rise." * Nature *

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Preface

Introduction: Converging COVID-19 Emergencies
1: Exposing and Governing Racism
2: Fragmented Health Infrastructure
3: Quantifying Racial Emergencies
4: Slow Emergencies
5: Sacrificing Essential Workers
6: Trust and Distrust in Pandemic Times
Coda: Lest We Forget

Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Timeline of Important COVID-19 Dates
Appendix B: Methods
Notes
References
Index
Claire Laurier Decoteau is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her previous books include Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa and The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.