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Crisis! Health Emergencies and Other Transformative Moments in Governance 
Convenors:
Michael Rabi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Eva Hilberg (University of Sheffield)
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Format:
Panel
Location:
Main Site Tower (MST), 01/004
Sessions:
Thursday 28 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel seeks to explore to what extent and how health crises/emergencies drive transformations in governance on different scales and in different fields, especially beyond (but not excluding) global health governance.

Long Abstract:

Pandemics and epidemics, much like other moments of 'crisis' or 'emergency', are a time of profound transformation. While for many people such moments become part of an enduring state of "stasis and stuckness" (Knight 2019), they can also become access points into historical truth through scrutiny of "what went wrong?" (Roitman 2014). As the Coronavirus pandemic keeps unfolding in unexpected ways, it repeatedly prompts changes to our ways of life, highlighting that pervasive transformative effects of health crises are not confined to the realm of public health alone, but play out across various spheres.

How do efforts to prepare and respond to, and recover from health emergencies effect changes in governmental practice and technology, policy, and power dynamics? Has global health governance indeed entered a state of unresolved crisis, in which persistent uncertainty means that "the old is dying and the new cannot be born" (Gramsci 1971)? Is this emergency then confined to global health governance, or can it be seen as part of a wider hegemonic crisis of "progressive neoliberalism" (Fraser 2019)? Finally, can the current pandemic emergency best be understood as a moment of indecision or decision, of shifting alliances or of emerging hegemonic consensus?

This panel invites diverse perspectives on the relationship between transformations in governance and health crises/emergencies as it seeks to explore to what extent and in what ways health crises/emergencies drive transformations in governance on different scales and in different fields, especially beyond (but not excluding) global health governance.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 28 July, 2022, -
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