The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367628956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

Deborah Lupton; Karen Willis

Opis

Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. 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).

Spis treści

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