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

Mark Pelling; Helen Adams; George Adamson; Alejandro Barcena; Sophie Blackburn; Maud Borie; Amy Donovan; Anshu Ogra; Faith Taylor; Lu Yi

doi:10.1177/03091325211059569

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

Mark Pelling^*, Helen Adams, George Adamson, Alejandro Barcena, Sophie Blackburn, Maud Borie, Amy Donovan, Anshu Ogra, Faith Taylor, Lu Yi

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-138
Number of pages	18
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Volume	46
Issue number	1
Early online date	16 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211059569
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2022

Keywords

build back better
COVID-19
disaster
emergence
science and technology studies
social contracts

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