Covid-19 and the sociology of risk and uncertainty : studies of social phenomena and social theory across 6 continents / Patrick Brown, Jens O. Zinn, editors.
Brown, Patrick (Sociologist), editor.; Zinn, Jens, editor.
2022
HM1101
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Title Covid-19 and the sociology of risk and uncertainty : studies of social phenomena and social theory across 6 continents / Patrick Brown, Jens O. Zinn, editors.
ISBN 9783030951672 (electronic bk.)
3030951677 (electronic bk.)
9783030951665
3030951669
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95167-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-95167-2 doi
Call Number HM1101
Dewey Decimal Classification 302/.12
Summary This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Contributions are rooted in critical social science studies of risk and uncertainty and characterized by theoretical approaches such as cultural theory, risk society theory, governmentality perspectives, and many important insights from southern theories. Some of the chapters in the book have a more theoretical-conceptual emphasis, while others are more empirically oriented but all chapters engage in an insightful dialogue between the theoretical and the empirical, in order to develop a rich, diverse and textured picture of the new challenge the world is facing and responding to. Addressing multiple levels of responses to the coronavirus, as understood in terms of, institutional and governance policies, media communication and interpretation, and the sense-making and actions of individual citizens in their everyday lives, the book brings together a diverse range of studies from across 6 continents. These chapters are connected by a common emphasis on applying critical theoretical approaches which help make sense of, and critique, the responses of states, organisations and individuals to the social phenomena emerging amid the Corona pandemic.
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Zinn, Jens, editor.
Series Critical studies in risk and uncertainty.
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Section 1 Theorizing
1. Risk in a Post-Truth Society, Joost Van Loon
2. The pandemic COVID19 and decision-making under uncertainty: The Norwegian governments handling of what is said and suppressed, Hafting, Tore
3. The Stock Market, Universal Intermediary Power, and State Support in the Face of COVID-19, Dean Curran
Part 2. Inequalities and Rights
4. COVID-19 in the Sahel : A multidisciplinary risk analysis, Bencherif, Adib
5. Social, health and environmental impacts of compulsory isolation in Buenos Aires settlements, Tobias, Melina and Soledad Fernandez Bouzo
6. On the justifiability of corona lockdown measures in India's context , Kritika Maheshwari
Section 3 Governing COVID-19
7. A tsunami of risk and uncertainty in slow-motion, Magdalena Gil & Eduardo A. Undurraga
8. Risk and shame in the English lockdown under Covid-19, Jo Warner
Section 5 Trust and Distrust
9. Trust, lockdowns and risk assessment: opinions and behavior across the world, Minna Lundgren
10. Social distancing, isolation and lockdown: trust considerations during COVID-19 in Australia, Paul Ward
Section 6 Public Discourse
11. COVID-19 in Argentina: Risks, Media, and Fears in Pandemic Times, Brenda Focas
12. Discourses around telework in the Brazilian banking sector: COVID-19 shifting framings of vulnerability and risk, Fernanda Sousa-Duarte
Section 7 Everyday Life
13. Biographies of preparedness: from everyday life to Covid-19 pandemic, Kvarnlof, Linda
14.The Ethics of Risk Research in the time of COVID-19: Privileging the Wellbeing of Girls and Women in the Context of Gender-Based Violence in Rural South Africa, Relebohile Moletsane & Claudia Mitchell
15. Risk, Mourning, Politics: The Loneliness of COVID-19 Deaths in Iran, Bayatrizi, Zohreh & Reza Taslimi-Tehrani
Section 8 Risk and Environment
COVID-19 and the Environment, Rolf Lidskog & Adam Standring.

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