Description
About the Author
Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of the award-winning Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety.
Reviews
"While global profit-seekers and the states that protect them push to normalize the Covid-19 pandemic, Crisis and Contagion conveys the urgency of international solidarity amongst the wretched of the earth. There is nothing natural about the premature deaths and disposability caused by our current world order. The interviews in this book provide us with the sharp analysis we need to understand that the social and material crises inherent to capitalism are as mutable as the virus." - Nanky Rai, MD MPH CCFP, physician and organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society and Toronto Street Medics // "This immersive, wide-ranging collection of interviews reveals many potential ways forward for organizers and activists to reclaim health as politics, away from the control of technocrats and professionals. These engaging, personable interviews rightly contextualize Covid-19 as an expression of multiple crises created by capitalism-with its atomization and commodification-which beg for a transformative vision from the Left. Crisis and Contagion is essential reading for all those invested in centering health, care, justice, and liberation in the world we are now building." - Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, MA MD CCFP DTM&H, author of Country of Poxes and A Labour of Liberation, co-coordinator of People's Health Movement Canada
Book Information
ISBN 9781771136396
Author Ian McKay
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint Between the Lines
Publisher Between the Lines