Building back better from COVID-19: knowledge, emergence and social contracts

Pelling, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6472-9875, Adams, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1732-9833, Adamson, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-696X, Barcena, A., Blackburn, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-5465, Borie, M., Donovan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3596-5294, Ogra, A., Taylor, F. and Yi, L. (2022) Building back better from COVID-19: knowledge, emergence and social contracts. Progress in Human Geography, 46 (1). pp. 121-138. ISSN 1477-0288 doi: 10.1177/03091325211059569

Abstract/Summary

COVID-19 recovery is an opportunity to enhance life chances by Building Back Better, an objective promoted by the UN and deployed politically at national level. To help understand emergent and intentional opportunities to Build Back Better, we propose a research agenda drawing from geographical thinking on social contracts, assemblage theory and the politics of knowledge. This points research towards the ways in which everyday and professional knowledge cocreation constrains vision and action. Whose knowledge is legitimate, how legitimacy is ascribed and the place of science, the media and government in these processes become sites for progressive Building Back Better.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/110628
Identification Number/DOI	10.1177/03091325211059569
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	build back better, COVID-19, disaster, emergence, science and technology studies, social contracts
Publisher	Sage Publications
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