1st Edition

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities Vulnerable Humans

By Victor Jeleniewski Seidler Copyright 2024
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath. 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 social and political upheaval, and the looming... Read more

1. Plagues, Fearful Memories, Counting the Dead and Global Health Risks 

2. Masculinities, Wars, Migrations and In/Visibilities 

3. Global Inequalities, Migrations, Deprivations and Despair 

4. Shocks, Isolations, Lockdowns and Fearful Futures 

5. Authority, Trust, Bodies, Risk and Contagion 

6. Health Crisis, Economic Crisis and Political Crisis 

7. Global Crisis, Lockdowns, Deaths and Disturbances 

8. Sufferings, Illness, Fears, Breath and Restrictions 

9. Denials, Language, Ethics and Responsibilities 

10. Hospital Voices, Risks, Grief and Everyday Ethics 

11. Trust, Gender Politics, Care Homes and Dispensable Bodies 

12. Rituals, Technologies, Gender, Grief and Poverty 

13. Hopes, Visions, Ecologies, Pandemics and Futures

Covid-19: Afterthoughts: How Different the World Needs to Be

Biography

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor Emeritus in Social Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He has worked and published across the boundaries of social theory and philosophy, including works such as Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7; Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority; Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory; Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures and, most recently, Ethical Humans: Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss.