COVID societies : theorising the coronavirus crisis / Deborah Lupton.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

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"COVID Societies presents a compelling 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 include discussions of the political economy perspective; biopolitics; risk society and cultures; gender and queer theory; and more-than-human theory. The book provides 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 is the most serious 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 globalising 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"-- Provided by publisher

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Print version: Lupton, Deborah. COVID societies. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

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October 04, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: COVID societies1. COVID in context: histories and narratives of health, risk and contagion2. The macropolitics of COVID: a political economy perspective3. The biopolitics of COVID: Foucauldian approaches4. Risk and COVID: risk society and risk cultures5. Queering COVID: insights from gender and queer theory6. More-than-human COVID worlds: sociomaterial perspectivesConclusion: reflections on COVID futures

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