Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China - Couverture souple

Chuang

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0882860070 ISBN 13 : 9780882860077

Editeur : Charles Kerr, 2021

Synopsis

Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught between a lethal virus and a repressive state. They argue that China's rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports, and analysis, Social Contagion gives us a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. Chuang concludes that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counterinsurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

闯 Chuǎng is a collective of communists living inside and outside China. Together they publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it, and a blog chronicling these developments in shorter and more immediate form.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charles Kerr
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0882860070
• ISBN 13: 9780882860077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 203
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