Pandemic transition: Techno-politics and social reproduction struggles
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چکیده
What are the impacts this pandemic is leaving on politics? In essay, I will argue that Covid-19 – beyond rhetoric of exceptionalism or denialism unveiling some ‘structural’ features Western capitalist-societies one side, pervasiveness digital technologies shaping more and public sphere; other social reproduction as contested terrain between divergent forces. The erosion spaces for decision-making in liberal democracies seems to be questioned by emergence practices mutualism claims common goods.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human geography
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1942-7786', '2633-674X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786211019191