The Context of Election 2020 - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas
b'In our opening public lecture, we will take up the immediate context of the 2020 election to consider what is at stake in COVID-19 and the recent uprisings around Black Lives Matter and racial injustice for the United States? We will draw upon Arundhati Roy\\u2019s concept of the \\u201cpandemic as portal,\\u201d in which she writes: \\u201cHistorically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.\\u201d As we approach these unprecedented, overlapping crises of public health, racism, economic decline and environmental breakdown, we must ask fundamental questions of what we need to leave behind in order to build what must come next. \\n\\n Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 36274]'