UID:
almahu_9949747633902882
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 249 pages).
ISBN:
9781003296874
,
1003296874
,
9781003857044
,
1003857043
,
9781003857075
,
1003857078
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in environment and health
Content:
"This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread of the novel coronavirus, now known as Covid-19, as it emerged and travelled across the world. Following the virus in real time, it explores the fears, risks and responses to the global pandemic, and how it has shaped our everyday lives against the backdrop of the growing climate crisis. Social theorist Victor Jeleniewski Seidler discusses fundamental questions of inequality and injustice regarding race, class and gender that the pandemic has made visible, through the differing risks, vulnerabilities and protections provided by legislative measures. Situated across disciplinary boundaries, the text investigates values, ethics, responsibilities and uncertain futures created by the global health crisis, analysing media and communications strategies and government responses from the UK, and comparing them with political communications around the world. Throughout the book questions are raised around anticipating the pandemic, drawing on cultural histories and experiences in its critical analysis. In its conclusion it connects the global impacts of Covid-19 to the climate emergency and reveals how we are responsible for shaping new economic, political and ecological imaginations that focus on sustainability in planetary terms. This wide-reaching volume will appeal to a broad academic readership in environmental studies, health studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, media and communication"--
Note:
Plagues, fearful memories, counting the dead and global health risks -- Masculinities, wars, migrations and in/visibilities -- Global inequalities, migrations, deprivations and despair -- Shocks, isolations, lockdowns and fearful futures -- Authority, trust, bodies risk and contagion -- Health crisis, economic crisis and political crisis -- Global crisis, lockdowns, deaths and disturbances -- Sufferings, illness, fears, breathe and restrictions -- Denials, languages, ethics and responsibilities -- Hospital voices, risks, grief and everyday ethics -- Trust, gender politics, care homes and dispensable bodies -- Rituals, technologies, gender, grief and poverty -- Hopes, visions, ecologies, pandemics and futures -- Covid-19: afterthoughts: how different the world needs to be.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Seidler, Victor J., 1945- Covid-19 and global inequalities Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032284453
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003296874
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003296874
