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Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts.

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Adams, Helen 
Adamson, George 
Barcena, Alejandro 
Blackburn, Sophie 

Abstract

COVID-19 recovery is an opportunity to enhance life chances by Building Back Better, an objective promoted by the UN and deployed politically at national level. To help understand emergent and intentional opportunities to Build Back Better, we propose a research agenda drawing from geographical thinking on social contracts, assemblage theory and the politics of knowledge. This points research towards the ways in which everyday and professional knowledge cocreation constrains vision and action. Whose knowledge is legitimate, how legitimacy is ascribed and the place of science, the media and government in these processes become sites for progressive Building Back Better.

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Keywords

Articles, COVID-19, disaster, build back better, emergence, science and technology studies, social contracts

Journal Title

Prog Hum Geogr

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Journal ISSN

0309-1325
1477-0288

Volume Title

46

Publisher

SAGE Publications
Sponsorship
European Research Council (804162)
NERC (via University of Edinburgh) (ct-6600(au))
ERC