Full Description
Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used during the pandemic are studied in their unique institutional, socio-geographic, and cultural settings, in order to form an understanding of the political climates and the values inscribed in current societal contracts.
The book is intended for academic audiences interested in policy research, health governance, and civil societal issues. It will be of great relevance and use for a wide audience of policymakers, public officials, and health care planners as well as students in a broad range of disciplines.
Contents
Governance and social control during pandemics
PART I: Communicating a pandemic
1. The role of the Italian press in times of pandemics: Old features in the face of a new risk
2. Re-vitalising discourses of solidarity: Governing populations in times of uncertainty and crisis
3. Calm chess player or self-aware administrator? How the Finnish and Swedish public health agencies addressed the public during the corona outbreak
PART II: Autonomy, rights, and choice
4. A battle over birth: Contestations, lived experiences and the restrictive policy of Finnish birth care in the COVID-19 pandemic
5. Stuck between health-related and socioeconomic risks. Managing the pandemic in India
PART III: Political and ideological struggles
6. The Effects of a hegemonising negationist narrative in Brazil
7. When counting counts: Politics of quantification and the government of Covid-19 in São Paulo
PART IV: Framing control policy options
8. The framing of harms to children and youth due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, Finland and Ontario, Canada in relation to school lockdowns
9. Nudge: Behavioural science, normative discourse, and the art of consent
PART V: Summary and conclusions
10. Governance in pandemic times: conclusions