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The COVID-19 Pandemic Series


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COVID-19 Pandemic Series

Series Editor: J. Michael Ryan

This series examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, countries, and the larger global society from a social scientific perspective. It represents a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to what many believe to be the greatest threat to global ways of being in more than a century. It is imperative that academics take their rightful place alongside medical professionals as the world attempts to figure out how to deal with the current global pandemic, and how society might move forward in the future. This series represents a response to that imperative.

Contributors are welcome to submit proposals related to any topic and how it relates to the pandemic, including, but not limited to, the following general topics:

Higher education

Race/racism

Gender and sexual minorities

Increasing forms of inequality

Senior individuals

National responses to a global pandemic

Conceptual innovations

Masks, social distancing, and other preventative measures

Leisure and travel

Mental health

Parenting

Technology

To submit a proposal please contact the Series Editor J. Michael Ryan ([email protected])

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Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Morena Tartari, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Cirus Rinaldi
July 05, 2024

Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic analyses the phenomena of moral panics surrounding so-called ‘folk devils’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, internationally-recognized moral panic scholars from disciplines including sociology, media studies, criminology,...

Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By J. Michael Ryan, Valerie Visanich, Gaspar Brändle
June 14, 2024

This volume explores how researchers made innovative use of online technologies to innovate, define, and transform research methodologies in light of the varying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those related to the ability to conduct qualitative research. The onset of the COVID-19 ...

Viral World Global Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Viral World: Global Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Long T. Bui
June 07, 2024

This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world. Following multiple case studies across dozens of countries throughout the course of the pandemic, this book is a timely...

COVID-19 and the Right to Health in Africa

COVID-19 and the Right to Health in Africa

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Ebenezer Durojaye, Roopanand Mahadew
May 28, 2024

This collection draws upon a range of thematic and regional case studies and uses the right to health as a normative framework to explore the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Drawing lessons from across the continent, the book discusses the challenges faced by African states ...

COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain

COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Carlos de Castro, Andrés Pedreño, Marta Latorre
May 27, 2024

Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. This book originates in the great upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic when the unprecedented announcement of global ...

Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic Pivoting to Game-Based Learning

Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Game-Based Learning

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Emily K. Johnson, Anastasia Salter
May 27, 2024

Educational technology adoption is more widespread than ever in the wake of COVID-19, as corporations have commodified student engagement in makeshift packages marketed as gamification. This book seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the need for a pedagogy of ...

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Simone Maddanu, Emanuele Toscano
March 29, 2024

This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light...

Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 Impact on Humanity

Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19: Impact on Humanity

1st Edition

Edited By Suresh Nanwani, William Loxley
March 19, 2024

Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the development trajectory of schools, public health, the workforce, and technology adoption. It explores social themes in society, economy, policy, and culture ...

Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis

Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis

1st Edition

By Daniel Feierstein
January 29, 2024

Weaving together political, sociological, psychological, and epidemiological analyses, Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis provides revealing insights into the transformations wrought by the pandemic and the social divisions it has exposed. Accounting for the realities of ...

Contagion Capitalism Pandemics in the Corporate Age

Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age

1st Edition

By Sean Creaven
December 15, 2023

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk. Contagion Capitalism therefore critiques the institutionalized ...

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Test

1st Edition

Edited By Federica Duca, Sarah Meny-Gibert
December 04, 2023

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts, via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South, the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola, Zimbabwe,...

Modernity and the Pandemic Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

1st Edition

By Sean Creaven
December 01, 2023

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic. The book focuses on key themes ...

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