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SoSe 22: Global Transformations and Regional Development: Making Sense of the Post-Covid

Sergio Costa

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The pandemic has produced ambivalent consequences for social life. Intersectional inequalities, combining, class, ethnoracial, citizenship, and gender inequalities, both between and within countries, grew during the pandemic and became even more difficult to be mitigated in the post-covid world. At the same time, the global virus has irrefutably revealed the high level of interdependency between different social groups, world regions, as well as between human and nonhuman living beings. However, this did not lead to more solidarity at the national and global level as individualistic and antagonistic responses to the pandemic have created and exacerbated divisions and divides.

This course seeks to discuss these ambivalent and long-lasting effects of the pandemic on societies: What has been the impact on social inequality and how does this affect the transformation prospects especially of poor countries? What is the impact of the global virus on world politics? How have the pandemic affected the sense of solidarity at the local, national, and global level? How does the global experience of living with and fighting the pandemic affect the treatment of issues concerning the planet's common future, such as climate change?

Although the course is expected to be offered in presence, some sessions will be conducted in a hybrid format to include guest lectures delivered in the framework of a lectures series on the same topic planed in cooperation with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS/ Hamburg) and the Institute for Social and Political Studies (IESP/Rio de Janeiro). close

14 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Tue, 18:00 - 20:00 ONLINE VERANSTALTUNG 10 Class schedule

Tue, 2022-04-19 18:00 - 20:00

ONLINE VERANSTALTUNG