The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings Steps towards Multi-Resilience (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 204)

Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis and draw the pillars for a more “multi-resilient” Post-Corona world, including political recommendations on how to generate it. Introduction: "Do nothing" or, an epochal crisis -- Systemic unpreparedness inducing a variety of psychological reactions -- The branches and social strata hardest hit : a list to be carefully remembered for the next systemic rupture -- Were nature, the environment and crime statistics "winners" of the crisis? Disputed "improvements" and their flip sides -- Children and relationships -- Labour and the economy : "generation Corona" -- Corona and re-globalisation 1 : sharpening awareness about the differences between political systems and their growing asymmetries -- A battle for values and transformation not confined to bilateral competition, but spanning the globe -- Unprecedented penetrative depth : uplifting technology, changing sexuality, questioning science? -- Corona and re-globalisation 2 : creating conscience for national and international reforms -- Intellectual rhetoric between cheap "humanistic" appeal and kitsch -- "Humanised" technology instead of a new humanism? -- A boost to "post-human hybrid intelligence" such as biological espionage and sentiment analysis? -- Striking a balance : was Corona a watershed for western humanism and the basic rationality of the enlightenment? -- The vast variety of political instrumentalisations -- Three more far-reaching aspects within global democracies and open societies : confirmation bias, "republican" turn and re-globalisation drive -- Corona : an unprecedented crisis accelerating the (temporary?) Rupture of advanced life patterns - including gender role models in democracies -- "Unsocial sociability" and the re-shaping of the global order : anthropology and politics intertwined -- Medical diplomacy, or : the great divide of principles over and after Corona. More "do it alone" - or more cooperation? -- Don't forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious : from Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror -- Coronavirus crisis social psychology : between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand -- Conspiracy theories : misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of "fake news" -- The perspective : the real question is not about COVID-19, but about "the world after" -- In search of examples of efficient resilience : from the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a "flexible" handling of constitutions -- Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics : a short overview of different options of socio-political responses -- The primordial path to follow : enhancing resilience. Basic philosophical assumptions and their implications for crisis-policy design -- Revisioning the concept of resilience : a necessary step (not only) after Corona -- Progressing from resilience to multi-resilience : two basic approaches -- Five principles of multi-resilience -- Summary. Multi-resilience : a crucial topic to shape "globalisation 2.0" -- The Corona effect and "diseasescape" : towards weaker, but more realistic globalisation and transnationalisation? -- The uncertainty about the future of COVID-19 : short-term scenarios versus big-picture trends -- Technological requirements : six trends -- Towards a post-Corona world : seven upcoming conflict lines open societies should prepare for -- The post-Corona world : potentials and visions for a "better globalised" international system -- Chances and limits of resilience : the development paradox and the increasing danger of man-made disasters with multi-sectoral side effects -- Towards a broader and more integrated policy of future preparedness : contributions from selected guiding concepts -- Fostering local, national and international paths towards multi-resilience : leverage points for interrelated social change bottom-up and top-down -- "Health terror"? Towards an adequate framework for a post-Corona socio-political philosophy : "resistance" and power critique will not suffice -- Seven strategic recommendations for pro-positive multi-resilient policy-making in the post-Corona world of open societies -- Recommendations for global post-Corona policy-making in an increasingly multipolar world -- The (productively) ambiguous post-Corona vision : a "new world" ahead? -- "Corona positivism" : the global pandemic as an unprecedented "chance" for radical transformation - or even as the epochal example for what (social) art should achieve? -- Corona as a driver of re-globalisation towards post-Corona globalisation -- A post-Corona core task : re-positioning the open systems of Europe and the West by the means of multi-resilience -- An end to geopolitical rivalry? Not likely - despite some positive signals -- Back to business as usual - or systemic improvements at the "evo-devo" interface? -- Integrating the obvious. Post-Corona, multi-resilience and "futures literacy" : "bring together what belongs together" -- Corona and emerging new responsibility patterns -- Outlook : a post-Corona world in the making. Towards difficult, but feasible innovation - for the sake of a more pro-positive re-globalisation "In Corona: The Once-in-a-Century Health Crisis and Its Teachings. Towards A More Multi-Resilient Post-Corona World Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, than it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by an Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger" "In coronavirus crisis and its teachings : steps towards multi-resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations of how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis proved to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, being appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implement multi-resilience, than it will ultimately have contributed to progress"-- Provided by publisher