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: 12 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Far East 1. Reconsidering the Third Place: Social Distancing and Inequality in South Korea during the Era of Coronavirus Kelly Huh and Hyejin Yoon 2. The Anthropocene, Zoonotic Diseases, and the State – Japan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Criminal Negligence or Crimes Against Humanity? Hiroshi Fukurai South and Southeast Asia 3. Witnessing Amidst Distancing: Structural Vulnerabilities and the Researcher’s Gaze in Pandemic Times in Relation to Migrant Workers of India and Singapore Amritorupa Sen and Junbin Tan 4. Social distancing? “No problem!”: Explaining Thailand’s Successful Containment of COVID-19 Piya Pangsapa 5. Trust in Numbers? The Politics of Zero Deaths and Vietnam’s Response to COVID-19 Amy Dao A Global Address 6. An “Unseen Enemy” and the “Shadow Pandemic”: Examining the Interface of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Domestic Violence Shweta Adur and Anjana Narayan United States of America 7. An Investigation into the Economic, Social, and Psychological Dimensions of COVID-19 Kevin McCaffree and Anondah Saide 8. Unsettling Contact: The Collapse of Emotional Distance at a COVID-19 Medical Frontline Junbin Tan and Phu Tran 9. A Spatial Snapshot of the Relationship Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Selected Crimes in California Gabriele Plickert and Emily Cooper 10. Employing Lyn Lofland and Ray Oldenburg’s Urban Sociology to “Read” the Emptying of Los Angeles’ Publics Jack Fong European Union 11. Trust between Citizens and State as a Strategy to Battle the Pandemic: Were Senior Citizens Merely Collateral Damage in the Swedish Government’s Plan to Flatten the Curve? Ann-Christine Petersson Hjelm 12. The German Reaction to Corona: The Interplay of Care, Control, and Personal Responsibility within the Welfare State Albert Scherr South Pacific 13. The Benefits and Drawbacks of Social Distancing: Lessons from New Zealand Maria Armoudian and Bernard Duncan 14. Conclusion Index
Jack Fong is a professor of sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
