Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy : Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic / Edited by Silvia Camporesi, Sanny Mulubale, Mark D.M. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Camporesi, Silvia (Bioethicist), editor.

Mulubale, Sanny, editor.

Davis, Mark (Mark David McGregor), editor.

Oxford University Press.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence.

Communication in public health.

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

COVID-19.

Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome.

Medical Subjects:

COVID-19.

Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

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Summary:

This book examines how COVID-19 narratives function as models of sense-making, how they connect public and private life, and what they make possible in social worlds. It emphasizes the little heard stories of those struggling with the pandemic's effects, featuring stories from across the world found in literature, social research, media, public health, and science. In doing so, it provides insight into the inequitable social burdens associated with the COVID-19 crisis. Designed to demonstrate the richly nuanced insights that narrative inquiry can produce to understand COVID-19, Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy explores the way in which pandemic narratives are used to create the shared collective memory and cultural legacy of the pandemic. The volume expands the critical frameworks through which emerging COVID-19 narratives - experiential, literary, scientific and their hybrids - can be known, examined, and understood. Designed to demonstrate the richly nuanced insights that narrative inquiry can produce to understand COVID-19, Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy explores the way in which pandemic narratives are used to create the shared collective memory and cultural legacy of the pandemic. The volume expands the critical frameworks through which emerging COVID-19 narratives - experiential, literary, scientific and their hybrids - can be known, examined, and understood. Designed to demonstrate the richly nuanced insights that narrative inquiry can produce to understand COVID-19, Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy explores the way in which pandemic narratives are used to create the shared collective memory and cultural legacy of the pandemic. The volume expands the critical frameworks through which emerging COVID-19 narratives - experiential, literary, scientific and their hybrids - can be known, examined, and understood. -- Publisher

Contents:

Researching COVID-19 narratives

Part 1. Power and narrative resistances

2 Master and counter-narratives of COVID-19: Summer, Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea, and the complexity of lived experience

3 Curves and numbers: Dominant and counteracting narratives of the early COVID-19 UK pandemic

4 'Living with COVID' government narratives: South Africa, Australia, and Norway

5 How COVID-19 spreads: Orthodox narratives, heterodox narratives, and social dramas

6 From 'in this together' to 'a winter of severe illness and death': Narrating national pandemic outcomes in the United States, 2020-2023

Part 2. Intersectionalities and temporalities

7 Narrating intersectionality: Migrant HIV positive women's narratives of living and surviving in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

8 Living 'positive' through the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative longitudinal study investigating how older people living with HIV experienced the first wave of the COVID-19 in Australia

9 What do COVID-19 measures mean to those on low incomes in Bangladesh?: Lived experience, reciprocity, and inequity

10 The sociomaterialities of COVID life in Australia: Insights offered by narrative case studies

Part 3. Epistemic justice and reconciliation

11 Lockdown stories: Collaborative life writing and intergenerational relationships in the London CityLife project

12 What can the lived experience of chronicity teach us about long COVID?: From illness narratives to structural injustice in chronic disease

13 Storytelling through long COVID: Shaping a disease with patient testimonies in the US, UK, and Brazil

Part 4. Conclusion

14 Valuing pandemic narrations: Analytical plurality, the COVID inequity crisis, and narrative ethics

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 14, 2025).

Other Format:

Also issed in print: Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ISBN:

9780197778982 (ebook)

0197778984 (ebook)

9780197778975 (ebook)

0197778976 (ebook)

9780197778968 (pdf)

0197778968 (pdf)

9780197778951 (hardcover)

019777895X (hardcover)

OCLC:

1527805020