'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
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'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
Expertise and Power: Historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
35 minutes
5 years ago
Expertise and Power: Historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response
Sweden has attracted enormous international attention for its far less stringent coronavirus strategy, largely devised by scientists inside the state bureaucracy. What Swedish governance traditions and political philosophies led to the expert-driven response to COVID-19 that has been variously commended and condemned by commentators both inside and outside of Sweden, and politicized by activists on the left and the right? Prof. Sverker Sörlin, a leading historian and public intellectual, joins the podcast to discuss the historical roots of Sweden’s coronavirus response, and explain how it is being misunderstood and misrepresented by many observers in the midst of the global pandemic.
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
