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COVID Societies - Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis (Paperback)
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COVID Societies - Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis (Paperback)
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COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of
key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the
diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis. These
include discussions of the political economy perspective;
biopolitics; risk society and cultures; gender and queer theory;
and more-than-human theory. The book provides insights into
everyday life around the world as people battled with containing
the pandemic and explores the broader historical, social, cultural
and political contexts in which these responses have developed.
COVID-19 is the most serious pandemic to affect the world in the
past century. We have all lived in 'COVID societies', the long-term
effects of which have yet to be experienced or imagined. The COVID
crisis has affected countries, regions within countries and social
groups within regions in strikingly different ways. These impacts
are continually changing, just as the novel coronavirus has mutated
into different strains and variants. Throughout the book, a series
of intertwined threads cross back and forth between the
macropolitical and micropolitical dimensions of COVID-19:
contagion, death, risk, uncertainty, fear, social inequalities,
stigma, blame and power relations. Overarching these threads are
five complementary themes: the historicity of COVID societies; the
tension between local specificities and globalising forces; the
control and management of human bodies; the boundary between Self
and Other; and the continuously changing sociomaterial environments
in which the world is living with and through the shocks of the
COVID crisis. This book will be of great interest to anyone seeking
to understand the manifold complex sociocultural consequences of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
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