Overview
- Provides an overview of the key dimensions of the emerging research domain of the sociology of pandemics
- Includes less mainstream approaches, all in reference to the societal response to the coronavirus pandemic
- Links emerging research to the theories and insights from the sociology of risk and uncertainty
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (CRSTRU)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Governing COVID-19
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Communicating and Interpreting COVID-19 Risk
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Pandemic Risk: Emerging Conceptual and Methodological Issues
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jens O. Zinn is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, President of the Thematic group Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty of the International Sociological Association, and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Book Subtitle: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents
Editors: Patrick R. Brown, Jens O. Zinn
Series Title: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95167-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95166-5Published: 26 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95169-6Published: 27 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95167-2Published: 25 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7268
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7276
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 332
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Sociology, general, Political Sociology