The Governance of Covid-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State

Abstract We consider the implications of the Covid-19 crisis for the theory and practice of governance. We define ‘governance’ as the process through which, in the case of a given entity or polity, resources are allocated, decisions made and policies implemented, with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of its operations in the face of risks in its environment. Core to this, we argue, is the organisation of knowledge through public institutions, including the legal system. Covid-19 poses a particular type of ‘Anthropogenic’ risk, which arises when organised human activity triggers feedback effects from the natural environment. As such it requires the concerted mobilisation of knowledge and a directed response from governments and international agencies. In this context, neoliberal theories and practices, which emphasise the self-adjusting properties of systems of governance in response to external shocks, are going to be put to the test. In states’ varied responses to Covid-19 to date, it is already possible to observe some trends. One of them is the widespread mischaracterisation of the measures taken to address the epidemic at the point of its emergence in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February 2020. Public health measures of this kind, rather than constituting a ‘state of exception’ in which legality is set aside, are informed by practices which originated in the welfare or social states of industrialised countries, and which were successful in achieving a ‘mortality revolution’ in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Relearning this history would seem to be essential for the future control of pandemics and other Anthropogenic risks.

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Becoming Teachers’ Little Epics: What digital storytelling might reveal

McGill Journal of Education ◽

10.7202/1033551ar ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 641-660 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Linda Radford ◽

Avril Aitken

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Digital Storytelling ◽

Teaching Practice ◽

Future Teacher ◽

Future Teachers ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

The Face ◽

Critical Moments

This paper discusses pre-service teachers’ use of multi-modal tools to produce three-minute films in light of critical moments in their teaching practice. Two cases are considered; each centers on a film, a “little epic” that was produced by a future teacher who attempts to work within an anti-racist framework for social justice. Findings point to how multimodal tools are effective for engaging meaningfully with unresolved conflicts. However, in the face of trauma experienced, the future teachers’ efforts to work within a social justice framework may be pushed to the margins. This pedagogy / research sheds light on the workings of the inner landscape of becoming teachers, and highlights the dynamic of education as a psychic crisis compounded by the demands of the social.

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IMAGE-CREATING POTENTIAL OF DISCIPLINES OF SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN CYCLE

Problems of Modern Teacher Training ◽

10.31499/2307-4914.2(22).2020.219429 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 101-107

Author(s):

Ольга Митцева

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Professional Activity ◽

It Professionals ◽

The Public ◽

Cultural Image ◽

Teaching Principles ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Professional Image ◽

Potential Content

Characteristic of image-creating potential of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle of higher technical education for the following resources: information-content, communicative-interactive, organizational-functional and cultural-image is made on the basis of the concept of “potential” and “image-creating potential”. Possibilities of the discipline of the social and humanitarian cycle for the formation of the professional image of the future IT specialists are: the focus of the content of discipline on the values of professional activity; diversity of choice of the practice of image-forming activity; multilevel image interaction and communication between subjects; means of methodological support for teaching the discipline are also disclosed in the article.Analysis of curriculum and programs for the future IT professionals' training have identified significant characteristics of potential content of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle of IT professionals' training for the image competence formation: enrichment of the range of image knowledge; possibility of image-forming activities; activation of productive ways of image-creative interaction.It is established that social and humanitarian disciplines allow forming a person capable of discovering and realizing one's own potential in society. These disciplines require the following teaching principles: general science, fundamentalism, systematic unity of historical and logical, national and universal, social and personal, theory and practice of teaching and education.For the realization of the image-creating potential of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle, a set of classes and tasks for the formation of an IT specialist's professional image were developed. These include discussion questions, discussion of popular public opinion on the internal and external image, the generalization of image management methods, identification of features of the public figures kinetic image, exercises for formation an attractive image of a professional subject, reflective exercises, role situations, designing your own image. These exercises become the basis for the creation of such an IT specialist's image, which will assist the prototype subject in achieving success, socially significant goals, creating a positive image.

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Zielony depozyt na czarną godzinę. Banki nasion jako miejsca przyszłości

Przegląd Humanistyczny ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.1840 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (1 (460)) ◽

pp. 19-32

Author(s):

Roman Chymkowski ◽

Agata Koprowicz

Keyword(s):

Essential Element ◽

Seed Banks ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

The Face ◽

Collective Imagination ◽

The Individual ◽

Human Actors ◽

Probabilistic Nature

The main aim of the article is presentation and operationalization of the concept of the places of the future in the context of seed banks. The future is understood here as a category of collective imagination, which means that the predicted future is an essential element of the present. The anticipated futures act reciprocally upon the social practices, both at the individual and the institution levels. Although, due to social, natural, civilizational and other reasons, the future is not fully predictable, it is semi-open, not-completely closed, it is recognized in the form of systemic thinking, which can be defined as closed. The analysis of the case of seed banks allowed revealing the inevitable gap between the future and systematic anticipation practices. The seed banks established in the face of the anticipated threat of global hunger are a tool for negotiating a possibly beneficial to people scenario for the future, conducted with non-human actors, whose actions are of probabilistic nature.

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Re-Presenting the Future of Medicine’s Past: Towards a Politics of Survival

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300005287 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 289-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Roger Cooter

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Political Action ◽

The Body ◽

History Writing ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

The Face ◽

Big Picture ◽

History Of ◽

The One

The ‘death’ of the social history of medicine was predicated on two insights from postmodern thinking: first, that ‘the social’ was an essentialist category strategically fashioned in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and second, that the disciplines of medicine and history-writing grew up together, the one (medicine) seeking to objectify the body, the other (history-writing) seeking to objectify the past. Not surprisingly, in the face of these revelations, historians of medicine retreated from the critical and ‘big-picture’ perspectives they entertained in the 1970s and 1980s. Their political flame went out, and doing the same old thing increasingly looked more like an apology for, than a critical inquiry into, medicine and its humanist project. Unable to face the present, let alone the future, they retreated from both, suffering the same paralysis of will as other historians stymied by the intellectual movement of postmodernism. Ironically, this occurred (occurs) at a moment when ‘medicine’ – writ large to include the biosciences and biotechnology – could easily be said to be the most relevant and compelling subject for understanding contemporary life and politics (global, local, and individual) and, as such, the place to justify the practice of history-writing as a whole. God knows, legitimacy has never been more urgent. But how can this be effected? Political action seems more likely than prayer. But let us begin by reviewing the nature of the problem that demands this response.

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Re-thinking professional development and accountability: towards a more educational training practice

International Journal for Transformative Research ◽

10.1515/ijtr-2015-0002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Yvonne Emmett

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Information And Communications Technologies ◽

Educational Training ◽

The Social ◽

Self Study ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

The Face ◽

Educational Potential ◽

Training Practice

Abstract In this article, I discuss the contribution of theoretical resources to the transformation in my thinking about professional development and accountability, within an action research self-study of practice as a civil servant, in the context of participation on the Doctor in Education (Leadership) programme at Dublin City University (DCU) in the period 2008-2012. It is at the intersection of these subject positions, between theory and practice, that professional development was explored through the ‘leadership problem’ of encouraging trainer colleagues to investigate the educational potential of information and communications technologies (ICT) for the development of their practice. Ultimately, this constituted a critical space for sustained dialogue between the self and the social in exploring professional subjectivity. The resources discussed supported the interrogation of social, cultural and historical conditions influencing self-understanding and narrative reasoning (Tamboukou, 2008) and movement from strategic to communicative reasoning (Habermas, 1984). It is claimed that this has significance for the development of a more educational training practice, which expresses a concern for subjectivity and agency in the face of a growing ‘performativity’ in professional life (Ball, 2003).

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Just Nationalism: The Future of an Illusion

Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume ◽

10.1080/00455091.1997.10716821 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 345-363

Author(s):

Andrew Levine

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Recent Work ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

The Other ◽

The Past ◽

Other Hand ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

The Face ◽

The One

Until quite recently, political philosophers routinely ignored nationalism. Nowadays, the topic is very much on the philosophical agenda. In the past, when philosophers did discuss nationalism, it was usually to denigrate it. Today, nationalism elicits generally favorable treatment. I confess to a deep ambivalence about this turn of events. On the one hand, much of what has emerged in recent work on nationalism appears to be on the mark. On the other hand, the anti- or extra-nationalist outlook that used to pervade political philosophy seems as sound today as it ever was, and perhaps even more urgent in the face of truly horrendous eruptions of nationalist hostilities in many parts of the world. What follows is an effort to grapple with this ambivalence. My aim will be to identify what is defensible in the nationalist idea and then to reflect on the flaws inherent in even the most defensible aspects of nationalist theory and practice.

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Current Postvention Research and Priorities for the Future

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000459 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 202-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Karl Andriessen ◽

Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart ◽

Julie Cerel ◽

Myfanwy Maple

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Online Survey ◽

Research Priorities ◽

Future Research ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Intercultural Collaboration ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Suicide Bereavement ◽

Ethical Approval

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

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Two Years after the Crisis: Do Risks of the Second Wave Become Stronger?

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2011-12-4-20 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 4-20

Author(s):

M. Ershov

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

World Economy ◽

External Shocks ◽

Global Imbalances ◽

Russian Economy ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Second Wave

With signs of normalization seemingly in place in the world economy, a number of problems show the possibility of aggravation in the future. The volume of derivatives in American banks grows significantly, high risk instruments are back in place and their use becomes more active, global imbalances increase. All of the above requires thorough approaches when creating mechanisms which can neutralize external shocks for the Russian economy and make it possible to develop in the new post-crisis environment.

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Party preferences and political participation: the emergence of the Turkish-origin German voter

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v5i1.56 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 21-40

Author(s):

Vera Eccarius-Kelly

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

Green Party ◽

Missed Opportunities ◽

Social Democrats ◽

Political Landscape ◽

Turkish Origin ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Specific Interests

The article examines trends in voting preferences and voting behavior of Turkish-origin German voters. Despite only representing a small percentage of the total German electorate, Turkish-origin voters are gaining an opportunity to shape the future political landscape. While the Social Democrats have benefited most directly from the minority constituency so far, this author suggests that the Green Party is poised to attract the younger, better educated, and German-born segment of the Turkish-origin voters. All other dominant national parties have ignored this emerging voting bloc, and missed opportunities to appeal to Turkish-origin voters by disregarding community-specific interests.

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PENSAMENTO POLÍTICO EM GIORGIO AGAMBEN

Professare ◽

10.33362/professare.v7i1.1557 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Claudemir Aparecido Lopes

Keyword(s):

Political Freedom ◽

State Of Exception ◽

The Political ◽

State Control ◽

Giorgio Agamben ◽

Modern Democracy ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

Political Implications ◽

The Social

O professor Giorgio Agamben tem elaborado críticas à engenhosa estrutura política ocidental moderna. Avalia os mecanismos de controle estatal, nos quais os denomina ‘dispositivos’, cuja força está na imbricação às normas jurídico-teológicas com seus similares ritos e liturgias. Suas ocorrências e legitimidade preponderam no tecido social cuja organização sistêmica se põe quase como elemento natural e não cultural. O texto tem por objetivo explorar a concepção política de Agamben sobre a política contemporânea, especialmente considerando seu livro: ‘Estado de Exceção’, cuja investigação apresenta a possibilidade de atenuação dos direitos de cidadania e o enfraquecimento da prática da liberdade política e o processo de relação dos indivíduos no meio social através da redução das subjetividades ‘autênticas’. Analisamos ainda a transferência do mundo sacro elaborado pelos teólogos católicos presente na modernidade à política cuja democracia moderna faz do homem (sujeito) tornar-se objeto do poder político. Faz também, reflexão dos conceitos de subjetivação e dessubjetivação relacionando-os às implicações políticas do homem moderno. A pesquisa é bibliográfica com ênfase na análise dos conceitos elaborados por Agamben, especialmente quanto ao ‘dispositivo’. Conclui que o indivíduo ocidental, de modo geral, sofre o processo de dessubjetivação e está ‘nu’, indefeso e alienado politicamente. Ele precisa voltar-se ao processo de ‘profanação’ dos dispositivos para libertar-se das vinculações orientadoras que forçosamente o descaracteriza enquanto ser ativo e livre.Palavras-chave: Política. Liberdade. Subjetivação.<h3>ABSTRACT</h3>Professor Giorgio Agamben has been criticizing the ingenious modern Western political structure. It evaluates the mechanisms of state control, in which it calls them 'devices', whose strength lies in the overlap with legal-theological norms with their similar rites and liturgies. Its occurrences and legitimacy preponderate in the social fabric whose systemic organization is almost as a natural and not a cultural element. The text aims to explore Agamben's political conception of contemporary politics, especially considering his book 'State of Exception', whose research presents the possibility of attenuating citizenship rights and weakening the practice of political freedom and the individuals in the social environment through the reduction of 'authentic' subjectivities. We also analyze the transfer of the sacred world elaborated by the Catholic theologians present in the modernity to the politics whose modern democracy makes of the man - subject - to become object of the political power. It also reflects on the concepts of subjectivation and desubjectivation, relating them to the political implications of modern man. The research is bibliographical with emphasis in the analysis of the concepts elaborated by Agamben, especially with regard to the 'device'. He concludes that the Western individual, in general, suffers the process of desubjectivation and is 'naked', defenseless and politically alienated. He must turn to the process of 'desecration' of devices to free himself from the guiding bindings that forcibly demeanes him while being active and free.Keywords: Politics. Freedom. Subjectivity.

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