Main description:

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.

A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Survival is certainly key, but surviving, and what that means, is also critical. The scholarship included in this volume will take a closer look at what it means to survive by addressing such issues as the importance of ethnicity in vaccine uptake, the gendered and racialized impacts of the pandemic, the impact on those with disabilities, questions of food security, and what it means to grieve.

Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Surviving a Pandemic 3. Towards a Sociology of Catastrophe: The case of COVID-19 4. This is What I Grieve Now 5. Carceral Archipelago and Gulag of Grief: Hart Island 6. Pandemic Eugenics: The Delta variant, child mortality, and the new racism 7. Food Insecurity in the United States of America: A comparison between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic 8. Coping with COVID-19 in Lebanon: A Social Psychological Perspective 9. Disclosing One's HIV Status during Indonesia's COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges faced by mothers 10. Managing COVID-19 (and Gender): An analysis of US news coverage on reported menstrual disruptions and vaccines 11. The Significance of Ethnicity in Vaccination Uptake: Social psychological aspects 12. "Protecting Our Most Vulnerable": Vaccination targets, situated knowledges, and the needs of people with disabilities during New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown 13. Vaccines: Are we really all in this together?