Ecology, democracy, and COVID-19 Rereading and radicalizing Karl Polanyi
Date
2021ISBN
9781003142089Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
New YorkEdition
1stSource
COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutionsVolume
1Pages
85-97Google Scholar check
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This chapter argues that Karl Polanyi’s economic sociology offers foundational concepts for a radical analysis of the social and ecological conditions that have caused the coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, it shows that Polanyi’s work, often claimed for social democracy, has the potential to provide much more radical insights into the question as to how to “re-embed” our economies, thereby leading to a fundamental rethinking about the ways in which the present crisis can be overcome.