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Coming to Terms with a Crisis : Cultural Engagements with COVID-19.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Martin.
- Series:
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 294
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Farzin Sina : Sina Farzin (M.A.) ist Fellow an der Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bremen. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich Sozialtheorie, Gesellschaftstheorie und Systemtheorie.
- Summary:
- The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributions to this volume show how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse, and science communication. They demonstrate how these representations both leverage new media and resort to familiar scripts and characters to make sense of the situation. Thus, they uncover the transformative potential of narratives about epi-/pandemics across different domains and their contribution to the production of knowledge as well as the recalibration of norms and values.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Coming to Terms with a Crisis
- Pandemics Between Material Causes and Figurative/Ideological Interpretations
- Depicting SARS-CoV-2
- Viral Commemoration
- Corona Fictions Anthologies
- Fiction as a Tool to Imagine the Pandemic
- A Year of “Very Historic Breakthroughs”?
- Contagious Economic Failure?
- “Vacuna o muerte”
- Donald Trump’s Viral Narratives and Shifting Pandemic Communication
- Confronting and Assuaging Pandemic Anxieties Through Horror Media in Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red
- Literary Reflections on the Institution of Science and COVID-19
- A World After the Pandemic
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783839470602
- 3839470609
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