COVID-19 Pandemic Series
Series Editor: J. Michael Ryan
This series examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, countries, and the larger global society from a social scientific perspective. It represents a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to what many believe to be the greatest threat to global ways of being in more than a century. It is imperative that academics take their rightful place alongside medical professionals as the world attempts to figure out how to deal with the current global pandemic, and how society might move forward in the future. This series represents a response to that imperative.
Contributors are welcome to submit proposals related to any topic and how it relates to the pandemic, including, but not limited to, the following general topics:
Higher education
Race/racism
Gender and sexual minorities
Increasing forms of inequality
Senior individuals
National responses to a global pandemic
Conceptual innovations
Masks, social distancing, and other preventative measures
Leisure and travel
Mental health
Parenting
Technology
To submit a proposal please contact the Series Editor J. Michael Ryan ([email protected])
By Jerome Krase, Judith DeSena
March 07, 2023
COVID-19 in Brooklyn looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg. Putting their private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase and DeSena ...
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By J. Michael Ryan
December 30, 2022
COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions. The scholarship presented in this volume examines such important issues as the impact on health-care workers, changes in the ...
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By J. Michael Ryan
December 30, 2022
COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly ...
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By J. Michael Ryan
December 30, 2022
COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic. A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to ...
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By J. Michael Ryan
December 30, 2022
Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the education system, pedagogical approaches and educational inequalities. Education is often touted as the best way to promote social mobility and producing ...
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By Carlos de Castro, Andrés Pedreño, Marta Latorre
November 18, 2022
Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. This book originates in the great upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic when the unprecedented announcement of global ...
By Emily K. Johnson, Anastasia Salter
August 26, 2022
Educational technology adoption is more widespread than ever in the wake of COVID-19, as corporations have commodified student engagement in makeshift packages marketed as gamification. This book seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the need for a pedagogy of ...
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By Fiona Rossette-Crake, Elvis Buckwalter
July 22, 2022
This book analyses some of the many upheavals brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the COVID-19–communication–culture interface, with a particular focus on the new global, virtual workplace. It brings together a pluridisciplinary and multinational team of researchers from the ...
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By Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez
June 17, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color while highlighting the prevalence of structural racism in the United States. This crucial collection of essays, written by leading scholars from the fields of communications, political science, health, philosophy, and ...
By Daniel Feierstein
June 13, 2022
Weaving together political, sociological, psychological, and epidemiological analyses, Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis provides revealing insights into the transformations wrought by the pandemic and the social divisions it has exposed. Accounting for the realities of ...
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By Irene Gammel, Jason Wang
March 14, 2022
Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, ...
By J. Michael Ryan, Serena Nanda
March 14, 2022
COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities examines the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, and countries, a fact seldom acknowledged and often suppressed or invisible. Taking a global approach, this book demonstrates how the impact of the pandemic has ...
