Covid-19
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Crisis and ContagionConversations on Capitalism and Covid-19 |
Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas … | Ian McKay | 324 | 2023 | View |
Spin DoctorsHow Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic |
As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that … | Nora Loreto | 417 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Killer’s HenchmanCapitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster |
Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world … | Stephen Gowans | 280 | 2022 | View |
From IntroductionFrom: Spin Doctors |
In the introduction to her book, Loreto describes where she was when the Covid-19 pandemic had hit Canada. Loreto briefly describes roles journalists and politicians played in feeding a specific … | Nora Loreto | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Crisis and Contagion |
In the introduction to this book, Ian McKay discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and its political and social impacts. McKay introduces the concept of this book and lists some of the interviewees. | Ian McKay | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! PrefaceFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
The author explores the global reaction to and handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. | Stephen Gowans | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
From NEW! An Interview with Nancy FraserFrom: Crisis and Contagion |
In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Nancy Fraser. Fraser offers an insightful analysis of how capitalism neoliberal politics facilitated the COVID-19 pandemic. Fraser offers a conception of … | Ian McKay | 23 | 2023 | $2.30 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 1: The KillerFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
The author discusses Covid-19 and its science, the measures put in place to stop it, some pandemic history and science, pandemic risks, globalization, lab-manipulated viruses (PPP research) and … | Stephen Gowans | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
From March 2020: The Pandemic EmergesFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto discusses the first Covid-19 cases in Canada and examines the way Covid-19 was portrayed by politicians and the media during this time. | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! An Interview with Mike DavisFrom: Crisis and Contagion |
Ian McKay interviews Marxist thinker, Mike Davis. Davis discusses what factors contributed to the global spread of COVID-19 and the varying responses from governments during the outbreak. Davis … | Ian McKay | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |
From April 2020: Disaster in Residential CareFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter examines how Covid-19 impacted aged care facilities and residential homes. Loreto explores how politicians contributed to the rising death tolls of Canada’s elderly population, … | Nora Loreto | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 2: The ResponseFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
The author discusses the response to Covid-19 with particularly attention to the United States and China. Topics include vaccines, public health and social measures, the approaches of countries … | Stephen Gowans | 36 | 2022 | $3.60 Add |
From Mohamed El-Erian in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 23, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Mohamed El-Erian and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and its impact on the global economy. Topics include global economy, responses to and management of the Covid crisis, entanglement of the … | Rudyard Griffiths | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From NEW! An Interview With Mack PennerFrom: Crisis and Contagion |
In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Mack Penner about issues relating to COVID-19. Penner is a PhD candidate whose studies focus on the history of neoliberalism and neoconservatism in Canada. … | Ian McKay | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 3: The Capitalists’ StateFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
This chapter asks who it is that made the decisions on how to respond to the pandemic (if to respond at all) and what their interests are. The author explores the domination of governments around … | Stephen Gowans | 35 | 2022 | $3.50 Add |
From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as … | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |