Date of Award

5-2023

Document Type

Thesis (Master's)

Department or Program

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

First Advisor

Eric Ramsey

Second Advisor

Nancy Fraser

Third Advisor

Daniel Lucey

Abstract

As Covid-19 rips across the world we are collectively asked to examine the structures of society to see what is working and what we can change. What can we learn from the roughly 6.9 million deaths (and counting) worldwide? How can we prevent something like this from happening again? This paper follows the course of Covid-19 from its birth in Wuhan, China, to the present day of mid-April 2023. By looking at the ways in which we have reacted to the pandemic, we are able to look forward and imagine new ways of tackling future pandemics and other pressing problems like climate change. Using social reproduction as a basis, we can think about how to center care and culture, rather than money and profit, to make our society more resilient to future emergencies.

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