The SARS-CoV-2 virus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, around the world in more than a century. Although there is little global agreement on many issues related to the virus, there is widespread agreement that the actual number of cases – both of those infected and of those who have died as a result of infection – is certainly much higher than official numbers suggest. The impact of the virus, however, has spread well beyond the realm of the medical, also heavily impacting social, cultural, economic, political, and quotidian ways of living for nearly every human being on the planet. The two edited volumes in this set contribute to a broader understanding of the impact COVID-19 is having, and will have, on our understandings, efforts, and decisions of the future of global society.
Volume I: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions
Timeline of COVID-19
J. Michael Ryan
1. Introduction: COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions
J. Michael Ryan
2. The SARS Cov-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic
J. Michael Ryan
PART I: ETHICS AND IDEOLOGIES
3. McDonaldization in the Age of COVID-19
George Ritzer
4. Theocidies of the COVID-19 Catastrophe
Bryan S. Turner
5. Necroethics in the Time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
Scott Schaffer
6. Ecology, Democracy, and COVID-19: Rereading and Radicalizing Karl Polanyi
Eren Duzgun
7. Heterotopia in Melanesia: Reactions to COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea
David Troolin
8. The Blessings of COVID-19 for Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Neoconservative Ideologies
J. Michael Ryan
9. The Rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Decline of Global Citizenship
Atefeh Ramsari
PART II: EXACERBATING INEQUALITIES
10. Inequalities and COVID-19
Serena Nanda
11. Spotlighting Hidden Inequalities: Post-secondary education in a pandemic
Stacy L. Smith, Adam G. Sanford, Dinur Blum
12. Business as Usual: Poverty, education, and economic life amidst the pandemic
Ryan Parsons
13. Inflection Points: The intersection of COVID-19, climate change, and systemic racism
Jill Betz Bloom
PART III: CHANGING SOCIAL UNDERSTANDINGS IN RESPOSE TO CRISIS
14. Blowing Bubbles: COVID-19, New Zealand’s bubble metaphor, and the limits of households as sites of responsibility and care
Susanna Trnka and Sharyn Graham Davies
15. Making the Invisible Visible: Viral cloud moments in the SARS COV-2 pandemic
Joseph A. Astorino and Anthony V. Nicola
16. Treating Loneliness in the Aftermath of a Pandemic: Threat or Opportunity?
Kelly Rhea MacArthur
17. Managing Trauma Exposure and Developing Resilience in the Midst of COVID-19
Johanna Soet Buzolits, Ann Abbey, Kate Kittredge, and Ann E.C. Smith
18. The Costs of Care: A content analysis of female nurses’ media visibility and voices in the United States, China, and India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mari A. DeWees and Amy C. Miller
19. COVID-19, the Pand(m)emic: Social media explorations from the Arab WorldNoha Fikry, Nada M. Ahmed, Malin E. Almeland-Grøhn, Laila ElKoussy, Mostafa A. ElSharkawy, Farah Seifeldin, and Ahmed Ashraf Younis
Volume II: Social consequences and cultural adaptions
Timeline of COVID-19
J. Michael Ryan
1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations
J. Michael Ryan
2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic
J. Michael Ryan
PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES
3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go
Deborah J. Cohan
4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic
Lee Millar Bidwell, Scott T. Grether, JoEllen Pederson
5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset
Adam G. Sanford, Dinur Blum, Stacy L. Smith
6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing
Jodie Dewey
7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic
Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk
8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic
Nazneen Kane
9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season
Donna J. Barbie, John C. Lamothe, and Steven Master
PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS
10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors
James K. Meeker
11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs
Dinur Blum, Adam G. Sanford, Stacy L. Smith
12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Heather L. Mello
13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children
Melissa A. Milkie
14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona
Marilyn Plumlee
15. People’s Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of and Poland
Magdalena Szaflarski
16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta
Valerie Visanich and Toni Attard
PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans’ Lives: A social-ecological perspective
Pamela P. Chiang
18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People
Matthew D. Skinta, Angela H. Sun, and Daniel M. Ryu
19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19
Monita H. Mungo
20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women
Lynnette Porter
Biography
J. Michael Ryan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, identities, and politics (2020) and Core Concepts in Sociology (2019).
"As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises- health, social, ecological, political, this is one of the first books that invite us to think creatively and analytically about COVID-19. A cutting-edge and comprehensive overview on the challenges we are facing. One can draw the conclusion that it is essential to incorporate a sociological view on health and illness when this pandemic sits where natural and cultural realities intersect. It is not about medical sociology but sociology tout court. These two volumes are compelling, timely and powerfully intelligent reading as books (and textbooks)."
- Dr. Sari Hanafi, President, International Sociological Association
