Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts.
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Authors
Adams, Helen
Adamson, George
Barcena, Alejandro
Blackburn, Sophie
Borie, Maud
Donovan, Amy
Ogra, Anshu
Taylor, Faith
Yi, Lu
Publication Date
2022-02Journal Title
Prog Hum Geogr
ISSN
0309-1325
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
121-138
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
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Pelling, M., Adams, H., Adamson, G., Barcena, A., Blackburn, S., Borie, M., Donovan, A., et al. (2022). Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts.. Prog Hum Geogr, 46 (1), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211059569
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.
Keywords
Disaster, emergence, Social Contracts, Science And Technology Studies, Build Back Better, Covid-19
Sponsorship
ERC
Funder references
European Research Council (804162)
NERC (via University of Edinburgh) (ct-6600(au))
Identifiers
PMC8801336, 35125621
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211059569
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334928
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