Covid-19 and Global Inequalities

ISBN-13: 9781032284477 / Miękka / 2024 / 296 str.

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler

Opis

This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread Covid-19 as it emerged and travelled across the world. It will appeal to an academic readership in environmental studies, health studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, media and communication.

Spis treści

1. Plagues, Fearful Memories, Counting the Dead and Global Health Risks  2. Masculinities, Wars, Migrations and In/Visibilities  3. Global Inequalities, Migrations, Deprivations and Despair  4. Shocks, Isolations, Lockdowns and Fearful Futures  5. Authority, Trust, Bodies Risk and Contagion  6. Health Crisis, Economic Crisis and Political Crisis  7. Global Crisis, Lockdowns, Deaths and Disturbances  8. Sufferings, Illness, Fears, Breathe and Restrictions  9. Denials, Languages, Ethics and Responsibilities  10. Hospital Voices, Risks, Grief and Everyday Ethics  11. Trust, Gender Politics, Care Homes and Dispensable Bodies  12. Rituals, Technologies, Gender, Grief and Poverty  13. Hopes, Visions, Ecologies, Pandemics and Futures

O autorze

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor Emeritus in Social Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He has worked and published across the boundaries of social theory and philosophy, including works such as Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7; Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority; Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory; Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures; and, most recently, Ethical Humans: Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss.