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COVID-19 in Brooklyn - Everyday Life During a Pandemic (Hardcover)
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COVID-19 in Brooklyn - Everyday Life During a Pandemic (Hardcover)
Series: The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
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COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely
at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of
ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn
neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the
authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown. Putting their
private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase
and DeSena discuss a wide range of research methods and theories,
as well as print and internet media sources about the pandemic.
With words and images, the scholar-activist authors place their own
personal experiences and those of their family and neighbors inside
the broader context of global and national medical emergencies, as
well as related economic, social, and political unrest, such as
widespread unemployment, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the
contentious 2020 presidential election. Using a distributive social
justice perspective and examining their own privileges, they
discover and discuss the racial and economic inequities that
affected the lives of other Brooklynites. These disparities
included public health measures and lack of access to basic
necessities of urban living. The book also addresses the cultural
and economic shifts that took place at the start of the pandemic
and contemplate how those forces will impact on future urban life,
asking what the "new normal" of business, entertainment, education,
housing, and work will look like locally and globally. This richly
illustrated book offers an invaluable local study of the impact of
the pandemic on ordinary people in Brooklyn. As such, it will be of
great interest to students and researchers in the humanities and
social sciences.
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