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In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions.
Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress.
This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.
Contents
Foreword
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Overview and Summary
part 1
The Coronavirus Crisis
1 Introduction "Do Nothing" or, an Epochal Crisis
2 Systemic Unpreparedness Inducing a Variety of Psychological Reactions
3 The Branches and Social Strata Hardest Hit A List to Be Carefully Remembered for the Next Systemic Rupture
4 Were Nature and the Environment "Winners" of the Crisis? Disputed "Improvements" and Their Flip Sides
5 Children and Relationships
6 Labour and the Economy "Generation Corona"
7 Corona and Re-Globalisation 1 Sharpening Awareness about the Differences between Political Systems and Their Growing Asymmetries
8 A Battle for Values and Transformation Not Confined to Bilateral Competition, but Spanning the Globe
9 Unprecedented Penetrative Depth Uplifting Technology, Changing Sexuality, Questioning Science?
10 Corona and Re-Globalisation 2 Creating Conscience for National and International Reforms
11 Intellectual Rhetoric between Cheap "Humanistic" Appeal and Kitsch
12 "Humanised" Technology Instead of a New Humanism?
13 A Boost to "Post-human Hybrid Intelligence" Such as Biological Espionage and Sentiment Analysis?
14 Striking a Balance Was Corona a Watershed for Western Humanism and the Basic Rationality of the Enlightenment?
15 The Vast Variety of Political Instrumentalisations
16 Three More Far-reaching Aspects within Global Democracies and Open Societies Confirmation Bias, "Republican" Turn and Re-Globalisation Drive
part 2
The Simultaneousness of Local, National and Global Effects
17 An Unprecedented Crisis Accelerating the (Temporary?) Rupture of Advanced Life Patterns - Including Gender Role Models in Democracies
18 "Unsocial Sociability" and the Re-shaping of the Global Order Anthropology and Politics Intertwined
19 Medical Diplomacy, or: The Great Divide of Principles over and after Corona More "Do It Alone" - or More Cooperation?
20 Don't Forget the Bizarre, the Surreal and the Perfidious From Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and Global Terror
21 Coronavirus Crisis Social Psychology Between Disorientation, Infodemic and the Need to Understand
22 Conspiracy Theories Misusing the Crisis for Legitimating the Absurd in Times of "Fake News"
23 The Perspective The Real Question is Not about covid-19, but about "the World after"
part 3
The Corona Challenge: Multi-Resilience for an Interconnected World Ridden by Crisis Bundles
24 In Search of Examples of Efficient Resilience From the Evolutionary Teachings of Bats to Regional Self-administration within Political Autonomies to a "Flexible" Handling of Constitutions
25 Crisis Resistance in the Face of Corona and in Anticipation of Potential Future Pandemics A Short Overview of Different Options of Socio-political Responses
26 The Primordial Path to Follow Enhancing Resilience. Basic Philosophical Assumptions and Their Implications for Crisis-policy Design
27 Revisioning the Concept of Resilience A Necessary Step (Not Only) after Corona
28 Progressing from Resilience to Multi-resilience Two Basic Approaches
28.1 Prerequisites: Relevant Criteria
28.2 Complexify: Multi-resilience in a Systemic Perspective
28.3 Simplify: Multi-resilience in an Action-oriented Perspective
29 Five Principles of Multi-resilience
29.1 Principle 1: Fostering Individual Resilience
29.2 Principle 2: Integrating Centralised and Decentralised Decision-making and Implementation
29.3 Principle 3: Problem-solving Practices with Knowns and Unknowns
29.4 Principle 4: Supporting and Enhancing Collective Intelligence through Participatory and Cross-sectoral Knowledge Management and Integration
29.5 Principle 5: Fostering "Resilience Culture" by Stimulating and Facilitating Collective Reasoning and Cohesion
30 Summary. Multi-resilience A Crucial Topic to Shape "Globalisation 2.0"
part 4
Requirements for a Post-Corona World
31 The Corona Effect and "Diseasescape" Towards Weaker, but More Realistic Globalisation and Transnationalisation?
32 The Uncertainty about the Future of covid-19 Short-term Scenarios versus Big-picture Trends
33 Technological Requirements Six Trends
33.1 Remote Working
33.2 eLearning
33.3 Telehealth
33.4 E-commerce and On-demand Economy
33.5 Automatisation
33.6 Increasing Use of Immersive Technologies
34 Towards a Post-Corona World Seven Upcoming Conflict Lines Open Societies Should Prepare for
34.1 Nationalism versus Globalism
34.2 Freedom versus Safety
34.3 Professionalism versus Populism
34.4 Class: Rich versus Poor
34.5 Ethnicity (Racism)
34.6 Gender
34.7 Generation: Young versus Old
35 The Post-Corona World Potentials and Visions for a "Better Globalised" International System
35.1 Idea Potentials: Policy-relevant Contributions by Intellectuals, Ecologists and Futurists
35.2 Universal Basic Income as a Driver towards Better Socio-economic Resilience?
35.3 Post-Growth and Degrowth as Responses to the Economic and Ecological Challenges in a Post-Corona World?
part 5
Post-Corona Policy Design
36 Chances and Limits of Resilience The Development Paradox and the Increasing Danger of Man-made Disasters with Multi-sectoral Side Effects
37 Towards a Broader and More Integrated Policy of Future Preparedness Contributions from Selected Guiding Concepts
37.1 A Brief Outline of Three Contemporary Coping Concepts: Development, Sustainability, Resilience
37.2 Development versus Sustainability versus Resilience: Similarities, Fault Lines and Potential (Realistic) Complementarities
37.3 Collective Wisdom as the Missing Connecting Principle towards Multi-Resilience?
38 Fostering Local, National and International Paths towards Multi-resilience Leverage Points for Interrelated Social Change Bottom-up and Top-down
38.1 Education Programs for Individual Resilience
38.2 Bottom-up Transformational Impulses via Building Critical Masses for Positive Change
38.3 Experimental Prototyping Projects
38.4 Building Bridges between Subsystems
38.5 Methods of Communicative Complexity Management
38.6 Towards the Integration of Standards?
part 6
Recommendations for a Multi-Resilient Post-Corona World
39 "Health Terror"? Towards an Adequate Framework for a Post-Corona Socio-political Philosophy "Resistance" and Power Critique Will Not Suffice
40 Seven Strategic Recommendations for Pro-positive Multi-resilient Policymaking in the Post-Corona World of Open Societies
40.1 Recommendation 1: Include Competency Development to Become a Crucial Part of the Education System
40.2 Recommendation 2: Strengthen European-Western Simulation Methodology and Strategic Foresight
40.3 Recommendation 3: Strengthen Future Anticipation Capacities and (Potentially) Their Integration. From the Futures Cone and the Futures Diamond to Futures Literacy
40.4 Recommendation 4: Improve Communication through "Complexity Workers"
40.5 Recommendation 5: Refine Multi-level Governance
40.6 Recommendation 6: Expand and Improve International Cooperation
40.7 Recommendation 7: Sharpen Global "Crisis Automatisms" and Interconnected Responsibility Patterns on the Way to Global Governance
41 Recommendations for Global Post-Corona Policymaking in an Increasingly Multipolar World
41.1 Five Policy Trajectories Proposed by the University of the United Nations - Leading to the Key Concept of "Futures Literacy"
41.2 The Forgotten Perspective: Instilling a More Encompassing and Trans-systemic Concept of Health and Healing?
part 7
Outlook. The Coronavirus Legacy: A "New World" Ahead - or back to Business as Usual?
42 The (Productively) Ambiguous Post-Corona Vision A "New World" Ahead?
43 "Corona Positivism" The Global Pandemic as an Unprecedented "Chance" for Radical Transformation - or Even as the Epochal Example for What (Social) Art Should Achieve?
44 Corona as a Driver of Re-globalisation towards Post-Corona Globalisation
45 A Post-Corona Core Task Re-positioning the Open Systems of Europe and the West by the Means of Multi-resilience
46 An End to Geopolitical Rivalry? Not Likely - Despite Some Positive Signals
47 Back to Business as Usual - Systemic Improvements at the "Evo-devo" Interface?
48 Integrating the Obvious Post-Corona, Multi-Resilience and "Futures Literacy": "Bring Together What belongs Together"
49 Corona and Emerging New Responsibility Patterns
50 Outlook: A Post-Corona World in the Making Towards Difficult, but Feasible Innovation - for the Sake of a More Pro-positive Re-globalisation
Afterword
Manfred B. Steger
Bibliographic References
Index
