RecordCovid19 : Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovell, Kristopher.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Record Covid 19

RecordCovid 19

Place of Publication:

Berlin/München/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

RecordCovid19. Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical and sociological perspective. Using the first-hand testimonies submitted as part of the #RecordCovid19 project as its inspiration, the chapters in this edited collection explore and contextualise the initial responses to the Covid19 pandemic. The collection examines people's relationships with Covid19 as an historical event, including their own experiences of living through history; their relationship with their surroundings, including their relationships with family, the soundscapes and the emotional environments of a pandemic world; the impact and tone of political rhetoric, including the use (and misuse) of wartime myths and language in the United Kingdom; and finally, what lessons can be learnt from how people discuss their own personal stories and what lessons can we draw from previous examples of storytelling in moments of crisis. The result is a fascinating and rich discussion derived from an archive full of idiosyncratic experiences of life changing during the Covid19 pandemic.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: #RecordCovid19

Chapter One History Happens To Other People? Memory, Myth and History in #RecordCovid19

Chapter Two Sounds from A Shrunken World: Covid, Speech and Silence

Chapter Three Pregnancy and Parenthood through the Covid Pandemic: Changing Pressures and Priorities

Chapter Four Narratives of Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Chapter Five Covid-19, Myth, Memory and the Second World War

Chapter Six A 'War' Against a 'Devilish' Virus: Religious Rhetoric and Covid-19 in the UK

Chapter Seven "Like i Was in a Movie": Narrative Relativism and Autobiography in the Lockdown Era

Chapter Eight Crisis and Storytelling: Learning Lessons from the Past

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110731002

3110731002

OCLC:

1394120041