Outputs (3)

Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437215

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk. Contagion Capitalism there... Read More about Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age.

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437208

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to... Read More about Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19.

The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This book is to a large degree an attempt to examine the reasons for the UK government’s internationally suboptimal performance in addressing the novel coronavirus pandemic. As such, this is conceived as a work of political and social critique. The t... Read More about The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism.