Social Fairness in a Post-Pandemic World - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book brings a much-needed re-examination of the concepts of social fairness and justice in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Through careful analysis of issues as diverse as the allocation of vaccines through the global system COVAX, women and gender, migrants and refugees, the environment, and social justice, the authors bring novel perspectives on openness, freedom, and well-being. This ambitious collection combines political, economic, historical, philosophical, and cultural analyses to examine whether it is possible to envision a 'fair society' after the global COVID-19 pandemic. 




Hikari Ishido is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University; director of Chiba University Bangkok Campus (in Thailand); and director general of the APEC Study Center Japan.
Jiro Mizushima is Professor of History of European Politics and Comparative European Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads the University's flagship research project 'New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.'
Masaya Kobayashi is Professor of Political Philosophy, Public Philosophy, Positive Psychology, and Comparative Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads Chiba University's Research Center on Public Affairs and represents multiple academic networks related to his specializations above.
Xiaofang Zhang is Assistant Professor from China at Chiba University, Japan.. She specializes in environmental policy and conducts multiple research projects under the University's flagship research project 'New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.'