Covid-19: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions

ISBN-13: 9780367695149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str.

J. Michael Ryan

Opis

This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies, the successes and failures of means used to combat the virus, and the considerations and future possibilities - both positive and negative - that lie ahead.

Spis treści

Timeline of COVID-19  1. Introduction: COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions  2. The SARS Cov-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic  PART I: ETHICS AND IDEOLOGIES  3. McDonaldization in the Age of COVID-19  4. Theocidies of the COVID-19 Catastrophe  5. Necroethics in the Time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter  6. Ecology, Democracy, and COVID-19: Rereading and Radicalizing Karl Polanyi  7. Heterotopia in Melanesia: Reactions to COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea  8. The Blessings of COVID-19 for Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Neoconservative Ideologies  9. The Rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Decline of Global Citizenship  PART II: EXACERBATING INEQUALITIES  10. Inequalities and COVID-19  11. Spotlighting Hidden Inequities: Post-secondary education in a pandemic  12. Business as Usual: Poverty, education, and economic life amidst the pandemic  13. Inflection Points: The intersection of COVID-19, climate change, and systemic racism  PART III: CHANGING SOCIAL UNDERSTANDINGS IN RESPOSE TO CRISIS  14. Blowing Bubbles: COVID-19, New Zealand’s bubble metaphor, and the limits of households as sites of responsibility and care  15. Making the Invisible Visible: Viral cloud moments in the SARS COV-2 pandemic  16. Treating Loneliness in the Aftermath of a Pandemic: Threat or Opportunity?  17. Managing Trauma Exposure and Developing Resilience in the Midst of COVID-19  18. The Costs of Care: A content analysis of female nurses’ media visibility and voices in the United States, China, and India during the COVID-19 pandemic  19. COVID-19, the Pand(m)emic: Social media explorations from the Arab World

O autorze

J. Michael Ryan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of multiple volumes, including Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa:Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).