Vaccinating capitalism: racialised value in the COVID-19 economy

Whyte, David; Knox, Robert

doi:10.1080/13576275.2023.2169116

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“…The single most important lesson for future law and policy makers to address is the way in which the global regulatory regime provides fertile conditions for viruses such as SARS‐CoV‐19 to emerge in the first place. Several key authors analyze the ecology of SARS‐CoV‐19 as a phenomenon of capitalist political economy (Davis, 2020; Khoury in this issue; Knox & Tzouvala, 2021; Knox & Whyte, 2023; Malm, 2000; Wallace, 2020; Whyte, 2022). Those authors argue that the biological conditions that allowed virus to emerge must be understood within a broader set of global political and economic conditions.…”

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Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the COVID‐19 global pandemic

Atiles-Osoria

Whyte²

2023

Law & Policy

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Governmental responses to the COVID‐19 global pandemic have generated numerous constitutionals, policy, legal, and political‐economic debates. Scholarly engagements with the sociolegal and policy consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic have been dominated by discussion on the role of emergency powers, the suspension of individual civil liberties, the suspension of economic rules in order to guarantee economic survival, and social regulation of public spaces and of workplaces. This paper aims to explore how a critical sociolegal scholarship can contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the role of law in creating the unequal conditions that propitiated the COVID‐19 pandemic and that might enable further crises. This introduction offers a roadmap for theorizing the limits of law, the operationalization of emergency powers and the different policies implemented by global south and north countries in response to the pandemic. This introduction is structured as follow: (1) provides a general overview of the law and society tradition and its engagement with the COVID‐19 pandemic; (2) engages with three key consequences of the pandemic, labor, and the lockdown; colonial implications; and the limits of law; (3) introduces the papers in this special issue; (4) sketches a proposal for the critical sociolegal scholarship of law and crises.

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Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the COVID‐19 global pandemic

Atiles-Osoria

Whyte²

2023

Law & Policy

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“…The everyday racisms that shape differentiated access to emergency healthcare, housing, access to infrastructural services, and other health variables that determine differentiated mortality rate combined with a deadly force during the pandemic. The lack of adequate protection for these racialized sectors included the lack of access to unemployment protections and access to health care as well (Knox and Whyte, 2023).…”

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“…In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US and PR government put in place extensive requirements and administrative burdens that prevented people—mainly poor and racialized individuals that took risky jobs that exposed them to infections and death—from accessing these unemployment funds. This anti-corruption approach based on prevention, exclusion, and systemic punishment has its roots in racialized and colonial conceptualizations of corruption, and on the necropolitical management of the pandemic (Darian-Smith, 2021; Knox and Whyte 2023). In the next section, I demonstrate the colonial and racialized rationality structuring anti-corruption intervention in PR and in the Global South.…”

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COVID-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment

Atiles

2023

Critical Sociology

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The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exacerbated the socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico (PR). This article demonstrates how anti-corruption interventions prevented those in most need from receiving the economic benefits of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and other unemployment insurance benefits. Analyzing this specific instance of anti-corruption and anti-fraud interventions amid the COVID-19 pandemic allows for a deeper examination of how colonial interventions undermined PR’s capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its socio-economic impact and created an unequal recovery. Thus, the article illustrates the contradictions of anti-corruption as punitive governance and the way in which a specific notion of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and policies. Altogether, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how colonial and punitive anti-corruption interventions enhance social exclusion, disproportionately harm racialized communities, and undermine people’s capacity to address period of crisis.

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To Embrace or To Reject: Marxism and the ‘War-Emergency Paradigm’

Nanopoulos

2023

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

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Vaccinating capitalism: racialised value in the COVID-19 economy

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the COVID‐19 global pandemic

Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the COVID‐19 global pandemic

COVID-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment

To Embrace or To Reject: Marxism and the ‘War-Emergency Paradigm’

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