Pandemic of perspectives : creative re-imaginings / edited by Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehta, Rimple, editor.

Thakur, Sandali, editor.

Chakraborty, Debaroti, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This book brings together academics, activists, health professionals, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to record their visceral experiences and critical reflections. It sheds light on how the pandemic has exposed the inequities in society, and is shaping social institutions, affecting human relationships, and creating new norms with each passing day. It examines how people from diverse societies and fields of work have come to conceptualize and imagine a new world order based on the principles of social and ecological justice, care, and human dignity. It prioritises the realm of imagination, creativity, and affect in understanding social formations and in shaping societies beyond positivist approaches. Documenting the myriad experiences of and responses to the pandemic, the volume foregrounds varied processes of making meaning, understanding impulses, resistances, and coping mechanisms, and building solidarities. Further, it also acts as a tool of memory for future generations, and articulations- artistic, political, socio-cultural, scientific- of hope and perseverance. Its uniqueness lies in the way it brings together a much-needed interface between science, social sciences, and humanities. A compelling account on our contemporary lives, the volume will be of great interest to scholars of sociology and social anthropology, politics, art and aesthetics, psychology, literature, health and medical sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Artworks

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

Responses to Covid-19

Essential and Non-essential

'Social Distancing'

Social Media

Where Is the Communion?

Diverse, Unequal Experiences

Care and Labour

Pandemic of Perspectives

Touch

Home and the World

Governance

Religion and Godlessness

Creative Communications

Questioning the 'Normal' and the Normative

Education

Of Trauma and Loss

Creative Re-imaginings

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Note

References

Chapter 1: My Tango Life Cancelled: 8 March - 3 May 2020

Day 1: My Tango Life Cancelled

Day 10: I Haven't Touched Anyone

Day 21: My Skin Stings without Touch, Like Hands Submerged into a Winter River

Day 30: The Great Fortune of a Pre-Covid-19 Death

Day 56: Tango Is a Pain Worth Longing For

Day 189: Broken Vows

Chapter 2: Poems

Come Eat My Lotus Heart

Limits

'For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet'

Chapter 3: Refugee Women from Different Continents Dance in a Circle

Chapter 4: Poems

My Mother, a Return Peace Corps Volunteer, Comments on the March 2020 Global Evacuation of Peace Corps Volunteers

My Mother, a Sociologist with Breast Cancer, Tells a Story on May Day, 2020

My Mother Masters the Art of the French Omelette

My Mother's Breast Cancer Surgeon Asks with Interest about Her Record of TB Treatment

In a Time of Distance

Chapter 5: Kartik's Last Words

Chapter 6: Plethora of Emotions Engulf the Everyday Life

Chapter 7: Post-Covid-19 Urbanscape: Re-imagining Housing as Infrastructures of Care

Social Distancing and Staying at Home

Pandemic and the Resurfacing of Housing Crisis.

Interventions Required in Housing

Envisaging Housing as Infrastructure of Care

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 8: Quarantined for life

Chapter 9: Calling on Australians of Conscience: Reflections from March to July 2020

Participant Observation: Reflections on Life in Lockdown

Punishing the Poor

Calling on People of Conscience to Re-imagine a Just World

Chapter 10: Femicide and Violence against Women in Mexico: May 2021

Gender-based Violence against Women in Mexico

The Pandemic That Precedes the Covid-19 Pandemic

What Must We Do?

Chapter 11: Domestic Violence during the Covid-19 Lockdown: Interventions by the Special Cell for Women Located at Police Stations

Prevalence Data on Domestic Violence during Covid-19

The Role of Special Cell for Women and Children in Police Stations during the Pandemic

Programmatic Strategies Adopted by Special Cells during Covid-19 Pandemic

Domestic Violence Helpline

Focused Advocacy Campaign on Putting an End to Domestic Violence

Strengthening Systemic Responses

Facilitating a Multi-agency Coordinated Response

Preparedness for Such a Pandemic

Integrating Response to Violence against Women within State Systems

Chapter 12: Re-imagining Governance in Post-Covid-19 Bihar1: May - June 2020

Decentralisation and Covid-19

Assessment of Welfare Measures Post-Covid-19

Food Security Measures

Issues in the Implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)

Agriculture-related Welfare Measures

National Social Assistance Programme

Welfare Measures for Healthcare

Towards Re-imagining Governance in Post-Covid Bihar

Chapter 13: Covid-19 Stories: Imaginations of the Local.

Chapter 14: Surveillance to Sousveillance: Watching the Watchers

Introduction: Era of Mass-Surveillance

Surveillance - Technology and the Pandemic

Surveillance - Politics and Policy

Power and Its Asymmetrical Veillance

Exploring Sousveillance

Sousveillance: Transparency and Accountability of Governments

Democracy-Friendly Technology

Conclusion: An Interim Counteragent

Chapter 15: LONG WAY HOME

Chapter 16: Handling Pandemic: How Does a Neo-liberal State 'Manage' the Deeper Malaise?

Reverse Migration and Necropolitical Management

Islamophobia, Violent Vilification, and State of Exception

A Clarion Call for Appreciation or Normalising the Distress?

Chapter 17: No Idea of God: June 2021

Epiphanies and Exaltations amidst a Pandemic

The Early Days

Chewing on a Book

So, Is the Wait Over?

Chapter 18: Thoughts from the North: April 2020

Chapter 19: Just Wafting by…

Chapter 20: Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Covid-19 Social Work in Uganda: April 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic in Uganda: Through the Lens of an Artist

Indigenous Practice of Ryemo Gemo and Covid-19 Response

Music and Covid-19 Response in Uganda

Western Enlightenment, Colonisation, and Indigenous Knowledge and Practices: Social Work Reflections

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 21: The Earth and Covid-19: April 2020

Chapter 22: To Do Is To Be?: May-June 2020

Chapter 23: The Myth of Majority: Re-imagining Minorities

The Spectrum of Ability and Disability

Covid-19 and the Invisibility of People with Disabilities

References.

Chapter 24: Covid-19 and the Intersectional Consequences for Women with Disabilities: Experiences from Sri Lanka

Persons with Disabilities and the Ongoing Denial of Rights and Justice

Nisha

Harini

Chapter 25: The Private Liberal Arts University and the Pandemic: Some Reflections

Understanding the University's Texture: Choice, Merit, and the Business of Benign Protectionism

And Then There Was the Pandemic…

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 26: Re-imagining Education in the Post-Covid-19 World: December 2020

Methodology

Why Bourdieu Matters: Reproducing Inequality

Online Education: What Does the Data Say?

Why Gender Matters?

Quality of Education

Chapter 27: Ground Zero after Ground Zero: April 2020

Chapter 28: Narrating the Moment of Transmission

Chapter 29: Shakespeare and Kafka: Telling Stories in Times of Uncertainty

Shakespeare

Kafka

Chapter 30: Socialism, Language, and Values for Post-corona World: April 2020

A Reluctance to Change

Demystifying Socialism

Not-Quite-Ready Attitudes

Language of Musicians and Poets

Chapter 31: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impacts: A Dialogue on Intersectional Vulnerabilities and Resistances 1

The Intersectional Impacts of Covid-19

Responses to Covid-19: Reacting, Resisting, Transforming

Re-imagining Our Present for a Political Project for the Future

Chapter 32: Beyond Crisis: Building Child-Friendly Cities as Bird-Friendly Spaces

Lockdown and the Environment

Child-Friendly Cities

Green Childhood

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003320524

100332052X

9781000728392

1000728390

OCLC:

1342254793