Classed Practices: Pandemic Preparedness in the UK
Behavioural science advice is often framed in a neo-liberal context which accepts market logics and privileges middle-class resources and perspectives. This chapter considers the classed nature of the behavioural science advice in the UK with an emphasis
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CORONAVIRUS, CLASS, and MUTUAL AID in the UNITED KINGDOM
Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom
John Preston • Rhiannon Firth
Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom
John Preston Department of Sociology University of Essex Colchester, UK
Rhiannon Firth Department of Sociology University of Essex Colchester, UK
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 John Preston and Rhiannon Firth 2 The Viracene and Capitalism 11 John Preston and Rhiannon Firth 3 Classed Practices: Pandemic Preparedness in the UK 29 John Preston 4 Mutual Aid, Anarchist Preparedness and COVID-19 57 Rhiannon Firth Index113
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About the Authors
John Preston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He works on social inequalities and how they are produced and reinforced in disasters and emergencies. He is the author of several books on disaster preparedness including Grenfell Tower: Preparedness, Race and Disaster Capitalism (2019). Rhiannon Firth is Senior Research Officer in Sociology at the University of Essex. She works on anarchist utopias, anti-authoritarian social movements and prefigurative politics. She is the author of the book Utopian Politics (2012) and is writing a second sole-authored book on Disaster Anarchism (under contract).
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1 Introduction John Preston and Rhiannon Firth
Capitalism has been described as a
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