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The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism

Creaven, Sean

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Dr Sean Creaven Sean.Creaven@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader for Sociology



Abstract

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 two aspects of critique are interlinked. The political dimension of critique is of the gross inadequacies of UK government policy with regard to COVID-19 as this response has been framed by neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, the constraints of austerity politics, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism that is more internationalized or export-based than those of the other developed countries. The social (or socio-economic) dimension of critique is of a type of society in which corporate-capitalist control of economy and state and science is institutionalized.

Citation

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

Book Type Authored Book
Acceptance Date Aug 22, 2022
Online Publication Date Jun 9, 2023
Publication Date Jun 9, 2023
Deposit Date Mar 28, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Series Title The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
ISBN 9781032191683; 9781032229850
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10492078
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/The-Pandemic-in-Britain-COVID-19-British-Exceptionalism-and-Neoliberalism/Creaven/p/book/9781032229850

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This is the author’s accepted manuscript of chapter 3 ‘Neoliberalisam and the crisis of welfare’ which features in the book ‘Creaven, S. (in press). The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism. London and New York: Routledge’ published on the 9th of June 2023.

The published version is available at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Pandemic-in-Britain-COVID-19-British-Exceptionalism-and-Neoliberalism/Creaven/p/book/9781032229850

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