Identity in the COVID-19 Years: Communication, Crisis, and Ethics

Identity in the Covid-19 Years explores how the pandemic has affected our identities, social belonging, and communication, offering a framework for understanding the disruption and interdependency that have emerged. It examines topics such as health communication, apocalyptic storytelling, lockdowns, mask-wearing, social distancing, anti-vaccination discourses, and frameworks for mourning the lost past and the uncertain future, and suggests that new ways of perceiving our vulnerability may lead to more positive, inclusive, and ethical ways of living.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Identity in the Covid-19 Years explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on identity, social belonging, and communication. It argues that the pandemic has disrupted our sense of self, our relationships, and our perceptions of time and space, but it has also provided opportunities for renewal and ethical living. The book draws on philosophical, media, and cultural studies approaches to examine how networks of mutual care and global interdependency have been drawn out by the pandemic, while also being disavowed in some settings in favor of problem individualism and sustained inequalities. It explores the roles of disruption and interdependency across a range of pandemic-related topics, including health communication, apocalyptic storytelling, lockdowns and immobilities, mask-wearing, social distancing, and new practices of touch, anti-vaccination discourses, and frameworks for mourning the lost past and the uncertain future. By focusing on the impact of the pandemic on identity, the book helps us understand how new ways of perceiving our vulnerability may lead to more positive, inclusive, and ethical ways of living.
Identity in the Covid-19 Years is a book that explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on identity, social belonging, and communication. It argues that the pandemic has disrupted our sense of self, our relationships, and our perceptions of time and space, but it has also provided opportunities for renewal and ethical living. The book draws on philosophical, media, and cultural studies approaches to examine how networks of mutual care and global interdependency have been drawn out by the pandemic, while also being disavowed in some settings in favor of problem individualism and sustained inequalities. It explores the roles of disruption and interdependency across a range of pandemic-related topics, including health communication, apocalyptic storytelling, lockdowns and immobilities, mask-wearing, social distancing, and new practices of touch, anti-vaccination discourses, and frameworks for mourning the lost past and the uncertain future. By focusing on the impact of the pandemic on identity, the book helps us understand how new ways of perceiving our vulnerability may lead to more positive, inclusive, and ethical ways of living.

Weight: 294g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501393686