The COVID-19 Crisis
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62895-6 (ISBN)
Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people’s everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distancing and consequences such as loss of work, working or learning from home and reduced contact with family and friends.
This edited collection covers a diverse range of experiences, practices and representations across international contexts and cultures (UK, Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand). Together, these contributions offer a rich account of COVID society. They provide snapshots of what life was like for people in a variety of situations and locations living through the first months of the novel coronavirus crisis, including discussion not only of health-related experiences but also the impact on family, work, social life and leisure activities. The socio-material dimensions of quotidian practices are highlighted: death rituals, dating apps, online musical performances, fitness and exercise practices, the role of windows, healthcare work, parenting children learning at home, moving in public space as a blind person and many more diverse topics are explored. In doing so, the authors surface the feelings of strangeness and challenges to norms of practice that were part of many people’s experiences, highlighting the profound affective responses that accompanied the disruption to usual cultural forms of sociality and ritual in the wake of the COVID outbreak and restrictions on movement. The authors show how social relationships and social institutions were suspended, re-invented or transformed while social differences were brought to the fore.
At the macro level, the book includes localised and comparative analyses of political, health system and policy responses to the pandemic, and highlights the differences in representations and experiences of very different social groups, including people with disabilities, LGBTQI people, Dutch Muslim parents, healthcare workers in France and Australia, young adults living in northern Italy, performing artists and their audiences, exercisers in Australia and New Zealand, the Latin cultures of Spain and Italy, Asian-Americans and older people in Australia. This volume will appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates in sociology, cultural and media studies, medical humanities, anthropology, political science and cultural geography.
Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia, leading the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society. Karen Willis is Professor, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and Honorary Professor, Division of Critical Care and Investigative Services, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. COVID Society: Introduction to the Book 2. Contextualising COVID-19: Sociocultural Perspectives on Contagion PART II: SPACE, THE BODY AND MOBILITIES 3. Moving Target, Moving Parts: The Multiple Mobilities of the COVID-19 Pandemic 4. Physical Activity and Bodily Boundaries in Times of Pandemic 5. City Flows During Pandemics: Zooming in on Windows 6. The Politics of Touch-Based Help for Visually Impaired Persons During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnographic Account PART III: INTIMACIES, SOCIALITIES AND CONNECTIONS 7. #DatingWhileDistancing: Dating Apps as Digital Health Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic 8. ‘Unhome’ Sweet Home: The Construction of New Normalities in Italy During COVID-19 9. Queer and Crip Temporalities During COVID-19: Sexual Practices, Risk and Responsibility 10. Isol-AID, Art and Wellbeing: Posthuman Community Amid COVID-19 PART IV: HEALTHCARE PRACTICES AND SYSTEMS 11. Strange Times in Ireland: Death and the Meaning of Loss Under COVID-19 12. Between an Ethics of Care and Scientific Uncertainty: Dilemmas of General Practitioners in Marseille 13. Post-pandemic Routes in the Context of Latin Countries: The Impact of COVID-19 in Italy and Spain 14. Risky Work: Providing Healthcare in the Age of COVID-19 PART V: MARGINALISATION AND DISCRIMINATION 15. The Plight of the Parent-Citizen? Examples of Resisting (Self-)Responsibilisation and Stigmatisation by Dutch Muslim Parents and Organisations During the COVID-19 Crisis 16. Anti-Asian Racism, Xenophobia and Asian American Health During COVID-19 17. Ageism and Risk During the Coronavirus Pandemic
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 471 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-62895-3 / 0367628953 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-62895-6 / 9780367628956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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