Organisation of Irresponsibility?

Ewan Kerr is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK. A political sociologist, his most recent articles have been published in Scottish Affairs, Critical Sociology, The Political Quarterly, and Economic and Industrial Democracy.Emina Bužinkić is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia. Her work on refugee racialization, migrant labour, and transnational solidarities appears in various journals. She is a member of AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges editorial collective.James Foley is a senior lecturer in politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the UK PI of the ENDURE project and the author of several books on Scottish and British politics in the context of debates about globalisation and nationalism.

• List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Preface: The Organisation of Irresponsibility? COVID-19 and the Governance of State-Society Relations in Europe Ewan Kerr, Emina Bužinkić and James Foley 2 The Management of Accountability: State Transformation and Class Politics in Scotland’s COVID-19 Response  Ewan Kerr and James Foley 3 Entangled Crises and Anti-systemic Mobilisations in Germany Christian Fröhlich and Mihai Varga 4 Protest Movements in Pandemics: Dynamics of 4C Social Responses to COVID-19 Governance in Poland  Wojciech Ufel, Anna Cichecka and Mateusz Karolak 5 Governing through Crisis: Racialised Exception and Securitisation in Croatia’s COVID-19 Response  Emina Bužinkić and Senada Šelo Šabić 6 The Struggle over Masks on Twitter: an AC/DT Approach to Finnish Pandemic Governance Juha Koljonen, Kleber Carrilho, and Emilia Palonen 7 Bottom-Up Governance in Times of Crisis: Informal Practices and Migrant Agency in Germany’s Assyrian Community during COVID-19  Soner Barthoma 8 Managing Crises through Deepening Inequalities: the Neoliberal Labour Politics of the Turkish State during the COVID-19 Pandemic  Erdem Damar 9 CODA: COVID-19 – a Neoliberal Pandemic Alfredo Saad Filho Index