Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19
Abstract
This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between
Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system
that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep
into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through
liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market
fundamentalism is thoroughly complicit with biopolitical sovereignty-its racializing
socioeconomic projects, cheapens life given its obsessive focus on high growth, by
any means necessary. If such precarity seemed normal even opaque to those privileged
enough to reap the largess of capitalism and its political correlates, the onset of
the Covid-19 pandemic with its infliction of sickness and death has exposed the social
and economic dehiscence undergirding wealth in the U.S. especially, and the world
at large. The essays remind us of these fissures, offering ways to unthink this devastating
spiral of growth, and embrace an unadulterated care centered system; one that offers
a more open and relational approach to life with the planet. Care, then becomes the
pursuit of a re-existence without domination, and the general toxicity that has accompanied
a regimen of high growth. The contributors to this volume, join the growing global
appeal to turn back from this disaster, and rethink how we relate to ourselves, to
our neighbors here and abroad, and to the non-humans in order to dwell harmoniously
within socionature.
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Crichlow, MA; & Philipsen, D (2021). Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19. Cultural Dynamics, 33(3). pp. 145-161. 10.1177/09213740211014304. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23586.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Michaeline A. Crichlow
Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly
in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. My current projects are focused on the sorts
of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how these reconfigure
their communities and general sociocultural practices. I am also interested in development's
impact on social and economic environments, and the way this structures and restructures
people's assessments of their spaces for the articulation and
Dirk Philipsen
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Dirk Philipsen is an economic historian and political economist at the Sanford School
of Public Policy and the Department of History. He also serves as Senior Fellow at
the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and director of both the Regenerative Futures Lab
and the Build a Better World Focus program at Duke University. His work and teaching
is focused on underlying structural requirements for wellbeing of people and planet.
His research includes economic metrics, the history of capitalism,
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