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.
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