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Author:   Christos Boukalas (Professor at Northumbria Law School, UK.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781032299990

ISBN 10:   1032299991
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   03 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the twin crises and the capitalist state Part I. Biosecurity 2. Medical power 3. The threat 4. Biosecurity law 5. Protect the NHS (the spectacle of public health) 6. Cancel society 7. The knowledge of biosecurity Part II. Economic Collapse 8. Fear vs fear 9. This is not a normal crisis 10. The great mothball 11. Sacrificial labour 12. Workfare 13. Pandemic distribution 14. Towards a dual economy: welfare for capital, workfare for everyone else Part III. The State to Come 15. Biopolitics and threat governmentality 16. From there is no alternative to whatever it takes 17. The rule of law and endless pseudo-necessity 18. Personal responsibility and the irresponsible state 19. Neoliberal despotism 20. Overcoming the order of fear 21. Postscript: Pericles and the plague

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Christos Boukalas is a senior lecturer in Northumbria Law School. He develops a political theory of law, based on legal and state theory. His research focuses on the advent of a new form of law and state in the course of the 21st century. He has widely published critical accounts on British and American security law and policy, including the monograph Homeland Security, its Law and its State.

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