Benedikter / Fathi - The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings

The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings

Steps Towards Multi-Resilience

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-90-04-46952-5

Verlag: Brill

Erscheinungstermin: 16.12.2021

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In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more “multi-resilient” Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions.

Before Corona, most concepts of a “resilient society” implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call “multi-resilience”. “Multi-resilience” means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress.

This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.

Produkteigenschaften

Artikelnummer: 9789004469525
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-46952-5
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 16.12.2021
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Serie: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Produktform: Gebunden
Gewicht: 769 g
Seiten: 432
Format (B x H x T): 163 x 238 x 30 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Themen

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

LIST OF IMAGES, TABLES AND FIGURES

OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY

FOREWORD

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

PREFACE

PART 1: THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

1 Introduction: “Do nothing” or, An epochal crisis

2 Systemic unpreparedness inducing a variety of psychological reactions

3 The branches and social strata hardest hit: A list to be carefully remembered for the next systemic rupture

4 Were nature, the environment and crime statistics “winners” of the crisis? Disputed “improvements” and their flip sides

5 Children and relationships

6 Labour and the economy: “Generation Corona”

7 Corona and Re-Globalisation 1: Sharpening awareness about the differences between political systems and their growing asymmetries

8 A battle for values and transformation not confined to bilateral competition, but spanning the globe

9 Unprecedented penetrative depth: Uplifting technology, changing sexuality, questioning science?

10 Corona and Re-Globalisation 2: Creating conscience for national and international reforms

11 Intellectual rhetoric between cheap “humanistic” appeal and kitsch

12 “Humanised” technology instead of a new humanism?

13 A boost to “post-human hybrid intelligence” such as Biological Espionage and Sentiment Analysis?

14 Striking a balance: Was Corona a watershed for Western humanism and the basic rationality of the enlightenment?

15 The vast variety of political instrumentalisations

16 Three more far-reaching aspects within global democracies and open societies: Confirmation Bias, “Republican” Turn and Re-Globalisation Drive

PART 2: THE SIMULTANEOUSNESS OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL EFFECTS

17 Corona: An unprecedented crisis accelerating the (temporary?) rupture of advanced life patterns - including gender role models in democracies

18 “Unsocial sociability” and the re-shaping of the global order: Anthropology and politics intertwined

19 Medical diplomacy, or: The great divide of principles over and after Corona. More “Do it alone” – or more cooperation?

20 Don’t forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious: From Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror

21 Coronavirus crisis social psychology: Between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand

22 Conspiracy theories: Misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of “fake news”

23 The perspective: The real question is not about COVID-19, but about “the world after”

PART 3: THE CORONA CHALLENGE: MULTI-RESILIENCE FOR AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD RIDDEN BY CRISIS BUNDLES

24 In search of examples of efficient resilience: From the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a “flexible” handling of constitutions

25 Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics: A short overview of different options of socio-political responses

26 The primordial path to follow: Enhancing resilience. Basic philosophical assumptions and their implications for crisis-policy design

27 Revisioning the concept of resilience: A necessary step (not only) after Corona

28 Progressing from resilience to multi-resilience: Two basic approaches

28.1 Prerequisites: Relevant criteria

28.2 Complexify: Multi-resilience in a systemic perspective

28.3 Simplify: Multi-resilience in an action-oriented perspective

29 Five principles of Multi-resilience

29.1 Principle 1: Fostering individual resilience

29.2 Principle 2: Integrating centralised and decentralised decision-making and implementation

29.3 Principle 3: Problem-solving practices with knowns and unknowns

29.4. Principle 4: Supporting and enhancing collective intelligence through participatory and cross-sectoral knowledge management and integration

29.5 Principle 5: Fostering “Resilience Culture” by stimulating and facilitating collective reasoning and cohesion

30 Summary. Multi-resilience: A crucial topic to shape “Globalisation 2.0”

PART 4: REQUIREMENTS FOR A POST-CORONA WORLD

31 The Corona Effect and “Diseasescape”: Towards weaker, but more realistic globalisation and transnationalisation?

32 The uncertainty about the future of COVID-19: Short-term scenarios versus big-picture trends

33 Technological requirements: Six trends

33.1 Remote working

33.2 eLearning

33.3 Telehealth

33.4 E-commerce and on-demand economy

33.5 Automatisation

33.6 Increasing use of immersive technologies

34 Towards a post-Corona world: Seven upcoming conflict lines open societies should prepare for

34.1 Nationalism versus globalism

34.2 Freedom versus safety

34.3 Professionalism versus populism

34.4 Class: Rich versus poor

34.5 Ethnicity (racism)

34.6 Gender

34.7 Generation: young versus old

35 The post-Corona world: Potentials and visions for a “better globalised” international system

35.1 Idea potentials: Policy-relevant contributions by intellectuals, ecologists and futurists

35.2 Universal basic income as a driver towards better socio-economic resilience?

35.3 Post-Growth and Degrowth as responses to the economic and ecological challenges in a post-Corona world?

PART 5: POST-CORONA POLICY DESIGN

36 Chances and limits of resilience: The development paradox and the increasing danger of man-made disasters with multi-sectoral side effects

37 Towards a broader and more integrated policy of future preparedness: Contributions from selected guiding concepts

37.1 A brief outline of three major contemporary coping concepts: Development, Sustainability, Resilience

37.2 Development versus Sustainability versus Resilience: Similarities, fault lines and potential (realistic) complementarities

37.3 Collective Wisdom as the missing connecting principle towards Multi-Resilience?

38 Fostering local, national and international paths towards Multi-resilience: Leverage points for interrelated social change bottom-up and top-down

38.1 Education programs for individual resilience

38.2 Bottom-up transformational impulses via building critical masses for positive change

38.3 Experimental Prototyping Projects

38.4 Building bridges between subsystems

38.5 Methods of communicative complexity management

38.6 Towards the integration of standards?

PART 6: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A MULTI-RESILIENT POST-CORONA WORLD

39 “Health Terror”? Towards an adequate framework for a post-Corona socio-political philosophy: “Resistance” and power critique will not suffice

40 Seven strategic recommendations for pro-positive multi-resilient policy-making in the post-Corona world of open societies

40.1 Recommendation 1: Include Competency Development to become a crucial part of the education system

40.2 Recommendation 2: Strengthen European-Western Simulation Methodology and Strategic Foresight

40.3 Recommendation 3: Strengthen Future Anticipation Capacities and (potentially) their integration. From the Futures Cone and the Futures Diamond to Futures Literacy

40.4 Recommendation 4: Improve communication through “Complexity Workers

40.5 Recommendation 5: Refine multi-level governance

40.6 Recommendation 6: Expand and improve international cooperation

40.7 Recommendation 7: Sharpen global “crisis automatisms” and interconnected responsibility patterns on the way to global governance

41 Recommendations for global post-Corona policy-making in an increasingly multipolar world

41.1 Five policy trajectories proposed by the University of the United Nations – leading to the key concept of “Futures Literacy”

41.2 The forgotten perspective: Instilling a more encompassing and trans-systemic concept of health and healing?

PART 7: OUTLOOK. THE CORONAVIRUS LEGACY: A “NEW WORLD” AHEAD – OR BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL?

42 The (productively) ambiguous post-Corona vision: A “new world” ahead?

43 “Corona positivism”: The global pandemic as an unprecedented “chance” for radical transformation – or even as the epochal example for what (social) art should achieve?

44 Corona as a driver of Re-globalisation towards post-Corona globalisation

45 A post-Corona core task: Re-positioning the open systems of Europe and the West by the means of Multi-Resilience

46 An end to geopolitical rivalry? Not likely – despite some positive signals

47 Back to business as usual – or systemic improvements at the “evo-devo” interface?

48 Integrating the obvious. post-Corona, Multi-Resilience and “Futures Literacy”: “Bring together what belongs together”

49 Corona and emerging new responsibility patterns

50 Outlook: A post-Corona world in the making. Towards difficult, but feasible innovation - for the sake of a more pro-positive re-globalisation

AFTERWORD

Manfred B. Steger

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