Pandemic Exposures – Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus
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Biographical note
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey and the Annual Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France. He is the author of many books in the fields of medical and political anthropology, including Life: A Critical User’s Manual and Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes. Marion Fourcade is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s and has published widely in the fields of economic sociology, culture, and science and technology."The pandemic should be read as an eye-opening phenomenon, and this is precisely how it is addressed in this outstanding collection."
- Arnaud Orain, author of La Politique du Merveilleux: Une Autre Histoire du Syste`me de Law, 1695-1795,
"This balanced and sober exercise provides a long list of very convincing insights to be gained from the first eighteen months of the pandemic."
- Richard Rottenburg, author of Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid,
"The vital contribution of this volume is that it insists on specificity. It paints a global picture from the ground up, attending to situated empirical particularities."
- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine,
"Combining sharp theoretical insight with gripping on-the-ground accounts, <i>Pandemic Exposures</i> gifts us with a pathbreaking social analysis of COVID-19's impact. Its formidable editors, Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade, along with an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars, artfully decipher the pandemic's paradoxical political, moral, and relational worlds. The book's discoveries will surely shape future research while also captivating all readers eager to understand COVID-19's upheavals."
- Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy,