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"To learn lessons" from the epidemic, you must already know what state the world was in before the coronavirus, recalled on Europe 1 the historian and professor at the College of France Patrick Boucheron. "Before the crisis, there were cases in progress: the feminist revolution, the question of inequalities, the ecological question. All that was suspended, and today it starts again. To know what we are going to do with the collective and political discussion, we tried to make an object which contributes to the debate ", specifies that which contributes to the collective work By here the exit , which has just left and is interested precisely in the lessons to draw from this epidemic for the next world.
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"The crisis draws us towards the values of justice and equality"
According to the historian, "the crisis is attracting us towards values of justice and equality" which will allow us to "create collective mobilizations", as we can see today all over the world. To those who think that the next world will be similar to the previous world, he retorts that "the general tone of the contributions", on the contrary, "is rather engaging and optimistic".
One of the authors of the book, the doctor and social scientist Didier Fassin, shows in particular that "from the point of view of public health, all the political decisions of most of the governments of the world were based on bio legitimacy, that is to say the fact that there is an absolute and incontestable legitimacy of human life: it is necessary to save all lives. How not to rejoice in it? It was not always like that ", enthuses Patrick Boucheron.
But in fact, he continues, "this sharpens our perception of the inequality of lives, and therefore we should not be surprised that the current problems resurface more acute, more acute by the crisis."
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"Open possibilities"
The collective work includes among others texts by the writers Marie Cosnay or Margaret Atwood (author of La Servante Écarlate ). The various authors have also tried to describe the "fear of resignation, of renouncing public freedoms or equality", specifies the historian, for whom "these collected texts try above all to open up possibilities", concludes- he.