COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma and transformations : ethics, politics and spirituality and alternative planetary futures / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giri, Ananta Kumar, editor.

Varghese, Saji (Associate professor of philosophy), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Influence.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Social history--21st century.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2025.

Summary:

COVID-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book engages with the challenges of transformations as a consequence of this. It brings reflections from several disciplines and thought practitioners from around the world. It explores challenges of transformations in economics, politics, self, science and society for living meaningfully in a post-pandemic world. It also explores pathways of creative planetary futures that we need to cultivate with and beyond COVID-19.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Notes on Editors and Contributors

COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations: An Introduction and An Invitation

Part I COVID-19 AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATIONS: ETHICS, POLITICS AND RESPONSIBILITY

Chapter 1 COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility: Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures

Chapter 2 Post-COVID Communities: Immanent Engagements and Intersectional Transversality

Chapter 3 On the Political Use of a Scientific Concept: 'Herd Immunity' and the Unconscious of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 4 Citizen Science, COVID-19 and Ethics

Chapter 5 Biopolitics in the Age of Global Pandemics: On the State Regulation of Human Life

Chapter 6 Sri Lanka: Politics of COVID-19 and the Rise and Fall of Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government

Chapter 7 COVID-19 Pandemic: Societal Disvalues as the Ethical Questions

Chapter 8 The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Life and Public Health

Part II COVID-19, SPIRITUALITY AND OTHER INITIATIVES IN HOPE AND CREATIVE LEARNING

Chapter 9 What can COVID teach us?

Chapter 10 COVID-19, Social Media, and Desire for Omnipresence: The Search for the Resurrected Body of Christ

Chapter 11 Corona Pandemic, Evil and the Hope for a Resurgent Future

Chapter 12 The Freedom of Choice in the Face of a Pandemic

Chapter 13 The Current Crisis due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Philosophical Approach on technological way of handling nature

Chapter 14 COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Global Approach Through Breathing

Chapter 15 Reminder of Being a Global 'Self'

Chapter 16 Beyond the Binaries: Cosmic Spirituality for the Pandemic Age

Back Matter

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83999-170-4

1-83999-169-0

OCLC:

1523369926