The Harms of State, Free-Market Common Sense and COVID-19

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چکیده

The markedly high levels of preventable death and injury from COVID-19 in the UK have been refracted by government appeals to “British common-sense” response crisis. We critically explore this appeal as a generator harm continuous with free-market common-sense (FMCS) that stretches back start 1980s Thatcherite assault on state protections, “enemies within” expertise public realm, driving legitimating broad landscape under neoliberal restructuring. This is context for understanding responses Grenfell fire, both which resulted avoidable illustrate role “common-sense” demonisation blaming victims violence along deligitimation health. Following Gramsci's conceptualisation its cultivating never-guaranteed consensus continuance capitalist power, we emergence “good sense” current juncture challenge harms FMCS has generated.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: State crime

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2046-6064', '2046-6056']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.10.1.0170