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COVID Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis

COVID Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis

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COVID Societies provides an accessible overview of sociocultural theories to understand the COVID crisis. It explores the political economy perspective, biopolitics, risk society and cultures, gender and queer theory, and more-than-human theory. The book offers insights into everyday life and the broader historical, social, cultural, and political contexts in which responses have developed. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of contagion, death, risk, uncertainty, fear, social inequalities, stigma, blame, and power relations, and explores five complementary themes: historicity, globalizing forces, control and management of human bodies, boundary between Self and Other, and continuously changing sociomaterial environments.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


COVID Societies provides a comprehensive 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 theories include discussions of the political economy perspective, biopolitics, risk society and cultures, gender and queer theory, and more-than-human theory. The book offers 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 has been the most severe 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 globalizing 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.

Weight: 216g
Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032060569

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