Another Time of Renewal : Pandemics, Power, and Knowledge
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2020

This commentary first presents a genealogy of pandemics and world orders. Second it highlights multiple origins of pandemics especially COVID-19 and the Spanish flu. Third it shows the shortcomings of international organizations such as WHO and sovereignty against a global pandemic. Fourth it compares the cases of Taiwan and Japan in their responses to COVID-19 and China. Fifth it discusses the limits of existing knowledge and the exploration of transdisciplinary knowledge to take on the unknown