When This Is Over : Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic / edited by Amy Cortvriend [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortvriend, Amy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Genre:

Popular works

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Policy Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact. A tragic loss of life, change to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare. It brought out the good in many and the worst in others and raised questions around what is truly important in our lives. In this book, academics, activists and artists come together to remember and to reflect on the pandemic. What lessons should we learn? And how can things be different when this is over? Sensitive to inequalities of gender, race and class, it highlights the experience of marginalised and minority groups and the unjust and uneven spread of violence, deprivation and death. It combines academic analysis with personal testimonies, poetry and images from contributors including Sue Black, Led By Donkeys, Lucy Easthope, Lara- Rose Iredale, Michael Rosen and Gary Younge. Taken together, this truly inclusive commemorative overview honours the experience of a global disaster lived up close and suggests the steps needed to ensure we do better next time.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

'When this is over'

Introduction: A record, an accounting and a memorial

In this together?

'Home and away'

Pandemic deaths and the possibility of politics

'May 8th, 2020'

Black, Asian and Global Majority experiences: a conversation

'Illustrating grief: Lumière Tarot'

Bodies with COVID-19

'Post-Covid thoughts'

Grieving and collective loss in assisted living

Policing in an emergency

'Unlawful gathering'

Protest and policing in a pandemic

'Dying declaration'

Legal education after COVID-19

'I have a wall in front of all my windows'

Border harms in a pandemic

Caring for the dead

'Reckoning with grief'

Lessons from a mortuary

'My impending adventure, a story for another day'

Funerals, cemeteries and crematoria: different community experiences

Commemorating lives lost

'Photo story'

Walking the wall: COVID-19 and the politics of memory

'Pandemic Easter'

A wall of pain and love

What comes next

'Go ahead, tell me'

Emergency planning is dead

'Waiting to exhale'

Moving on

Afterword

Notes on contributors

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781447368076

144736807X

9781447368083

1447368088

OCLC:

1373596368