Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Jack Fong

Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jack Fong

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English

University of Toronto Press
22 July 2024

Cultural studies; Social impact of disasters; Social & cultural anthropology; Infectious & contagious diseases; Human geography

Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic examines lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities and societies around the world before the arrival of vaccines. This collection presents analyses of scholars from eight countries, all of whom were engaged in the unfolding crisis of social forces across the world.

This timely volume conveys valuable insights about how public officials, the state, healthcare workers, and, ultimately, citizens responded to consequences of the pandemic upon not only the body but also social relations in community, city, and society. The contributing scholars document how state apparatuses, urban configurations, places of employment, legal structures, and ways of life responded to crisis-altered social conditions during the pandemic. The book investigates what societies experiencing crisis around the world reveal about the state's efficacy and inefficacy in fulfilling its social contract for its citizens, especially on unresolved issues related to social relations based on politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and crime.

This collection brings together a cross section of scholars experiencing the same temporal moment of crisis together, watching and observing how the pandemic of their age uncoiled itself into the fabric of community, onto the institutions and bureaucracies of society, and into the most intimate confines of the home.

Edited by: Jack Fong
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781487527082
ISBN 10: 148752708X
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 22 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Fong is a professor of sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Reviews for Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

""Jack Fong's edited collection is a timely and insightful examination of how different societies across the globe understood and responded to one of the most devastating pandemics in a generation. It serves as a template for understanding the ways that societal and institutional disruption unfolds across governments and cultures - in an attempt to mitigate illness and death - and what the national and international consequences of that disruption were.""--Victor W. Perez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware ""As we cautiously pivot from surviving the pandemic to making sense of it, this volume offers an impeccable roadmap. Chapters analyse responses across ten countries, drawing upon historical, theoretical, and empirical work to trace not only wildly different national-level responses, but also the striking ways community context filtered effects. This groundbreaking examination of the intertwining of national politics and public health should be read across the medical and social sciences.""--Andrea Rissing, Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University