E BOOK COVID Societies 1st Edition by Deborah Lupton
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The COVID Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis" (1st Edition), written by Deborah Lupton and published by Routledge, explores the sociocultural, political, and historical contexts of how everyday life and global structures were altered by the pandemic. [1, 2]
The book is structured around five core themes, key theoretical frameworks, and intertwined sociopolitical dimensions:
5 Overarching Themes
- The historicity of COVID societies — Looking at the pandemic through a historical lens.
- Local specificities vs. globalising forces — The tension between local regional responses and global impacts.
- Control and management of human bodies — How bodies were regulated, monitored, and restricted.
- The boundary between Self and Other — Social divisions, boundary-making, and interactions between people.
- Changing sociomaterial environments — How our physical and digital surroundings mutated as the world lived through the crisis. [1]
Sociocultural & Theoretical Frameworks
The text uses specific sociological lenses to make sense of the crisis, including:
- Political economy perspective — Assessing power, wealth distribution, and state structures.
- Biopolitics — Exploring how governments regulate populations and public health.
- Risk society and cultures — Analyzing how risk, danger, and safety were perceived and communicated.
- Gender and queer theory — Examining the disproportionate and distinct impacts on different gender and identity groups.
- More-than-human theory — Considering the relationship between humans, the biological virus, and technology. [1]
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