Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings

This volume explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society, highlighting the inequalities and shaping social institutions. It emphasizes the role of imagination, creativity, and affect in understanding social formations and shaping societies beyond positivist approaches. It documents diverse experiences and responses to the pandemic, highlighting processes of meaning-making, resistance, and coping mechanisms. The volume serves as a tool of memory and hope for future generations, bringing together science, social sciences, and humanities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse range of academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from across the globe to explore the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Through their insightful contributions, the book sheds light on the glaring inequalities that have been exposed by the crisis, reshaping social institutions, influencing human relationships, and establishing new norms with each passing day.

The volume delves into the ways in which individuals from diverse societies and fields of work have conceptualized and envisioned a new world order grounded in the principles of social and ecological justice, care, and human dignity. It prioritizes the realm of imagination, creativity, and affect in understanding social formations and shaping societies beyond the confines of positivist approaches. By documenting the myriad experiences and responses to the pandemic, the book forefronts various processes of making meaning, understanding impulses, resistances, and coping mechanisms, and fostering solidarities.

Furthermore, it serves as a valuable tool of memory for future generations, providing artistic, political, socio-cultural, scientific, and other articulations of hope and perseverance. This spectrum of expressions aims to value visceral experiences, build solidarities, and find solace in art.

What sets this volume apart is its unique ability to bridge the gap between science, social sciences, and humanities, offering a compelling account of our contemporary lives. It will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers in sociology and social anthropology, politics, art and aesthetics, psychology, social work, literature, health, and medical sciences, among others.

Weight: 780g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032020907