The Long Year

A 2020 Reader
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnosis.

In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang, Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded hospitals of India.

The definitive guide to these ongoing catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented. It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public Books and the Social Science Research Council.

Contributor: Thomas J. Sugrue (Edited by), Caitlin Zaloom (Edited by), Andy Horowitz (Contributions by), Éric Charmes (Contributions by), Max Rousseau (Contributions by), Adam Tooze (Contributions by), Joan Wallach Scott (Contributions by), Andrew Lakoff (Contributions by), Keisha N. Blain (Contributions by), Natalia Molina (Contributions by), Marcia Chatelain (Contributions by), Michelle Cera (Contributions by), Gilles Guiheux (Contributions by), Ye Guo (Contributions by), Renyou Hou (Contributions by), Manon Laurent (Contributions by), Jun Li (Contributions by), Anne-Valérie Ruinet (Contributions by), Govindan Venkatasubramanian (Contributions by), Isabelle Guérin (Contributions by), Mathieu Ferry (Contributions by), Marine Al Dahdah (Contributions by), Neha Vora (Contributions by), Sulfikar Amir (Contributions by), Sherihan Radi (Contributions by), Mustafa Dikeç (Contributions by), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Contributions by), Simon Balto (Contributions by), Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (Contributions by), Rachel Nolan (Contributions by), David Schmidt (Contributions by), Julie Livingston (Contributions by), Margaret Morganroth Gullette (Contributions by), Xiaowei Wang (Contributions by), Priscilla Wald (Contributions by), Evan Lieberman (Contributions by), Warwick Anderson (Contributions by), Julia Foulkes (Contributions by), Soledad Álvarez Velasco (Contributions by), Sophie Lewis (Contributions by), Guobin Yang (Contributions by), Sophie Gonick (Contributions by), Margaret O'Mara (Contributions by), Alfonso Fierro (Contributions by), Erick Corrêa (Contributions by), Ananya Roy (Contributions by), Gianpaolo Biaocchi (Contributions by), Jake Carlson (Contributions by), Quentin Ravelli (Contributions by), Jean-Paul Gagnon (Contributions by), Rikki J. Dean (Contributions by), Afsoun Afsahi (Contributions by), Emily Beausoleil (Contributions by), Selen A. Ercan (Contributions by), Miguel Centeno (Contributions by), Gautam Bhan (Contributions by), Joanne Randa Nucho (Contributions by), Yarimar Bonilla (Contributions by), Jacob A.C. Remes (Contributions by), Warren Breckman (Contributions by), Cordula Dittmer (Contributions by), Daniel F. Lorenz (Contributions by), Kathryn Cai (Contributions by), Eric Klinenberg (Contributions by), David S. Barnes (Contributions by), Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Contributions by), Merlin Chowkwanyun (Contributions by)

Pages: 560

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