COVID-19

Introduction / J. Michael Ryan -- Surviving a pandemic / J. Michael Ryan -- Towards a sociology of catastrophe : the case of COVID-19 / Bryan S. Turner -- This is what I grieve now / Deborah J. Cohan -- Carceral archipelago and gulag of grief : Hart Island / Rebecca Scott Bray -- Pandemic eugenics : the delta variant, child mortality, and the new racism / Nazneen Khan -- Insecurity in the United States of America : a comparison between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic / Anne Mook and Emily Swanson -- Coping with COVID-19 in Lebanon : a social psychological perspective / Rusi Jaspal, Moubadda Assi and Ismael Maatouk -- Disclosing one's HIV status during Indonesia's COVID-19 pandemic : challenges faced by mothers / Najmah, Kusnan, Tom Graham Davies and Sharyn Graham Davies -- Managing COVID-19 (and gender) : an analysis of US news coverage on reported menstrual disruptions and vaccines / Mari A. DeWees and Amy C. Miller -- The significance of ethnicity in vaccination uptake : social psychological aspects / Rusi Jaspal and Glynis M. Breakwell -- "Protecting our most vulnerable" : vaccination targets, situated knowledges, and the needs of people with disabilities during New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown / Susanna Trnka and Luca Muir -- Vaccines : are we really all in this together? / J. Michael Ryan and Serena Nanda.

"COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic. A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Survival is certainly key, but surviving, and what that means, is also critical. The scholarship included in this volume will take a closer look at what it means to survive by addressing such issues as the importance of ethnicity in vaccine uptake, the gendered and racialized impacts of the pandemic, the impact on those with disabilities, questions of food security, and what it means to grieve. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic"--

"COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions. The scholarship presented in this volume examines such important issues as the impact on health care workers, changes in the interaction order, linguistic access, social stigma, policing, new understandings of social class, and the role of misinformation. Brought together, these insights can help us better understand both the micro and macro changes that have been brought about by the pandemic. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic"--

This volume provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions, examining important issues as the impact on health care workers, changes in the interaction order, linguistic access, social stigma, policing, new understandings of social class, and the role of misinformation.