The chapter in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Cultural studies. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier / John Nguyet Erni and Ted Striphas -- Racializations -- 2. COVID-19 and the mundane practices of privilege / Kumarini Silva -- 3. Following the science? COVID-19, 'race' and the politics of knowing / John Clarke -- 4. 'Give me liberty or give me COVID!' : Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency / Jack Bratich -- 5. Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic / Lisa B. Y. Calvente -- 6. Asian Americans as racial contagion / Madhavi Mallapragada -- 7. COVID-19 and 'crisis as ordinary': pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies / Josh Smicker -- 8. COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion : an exploration of population density debates in Australia / Sukhmani Khorana -- 9. The long and deadly road : the COVID pandemic and Indian migrants / Raka Shome -- Media, Data, and Fragments of the Popular -- 10. New normals, from talk to gesture / Chris Ingraham -- 11. Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era / Jeffrey A. Bennett -- 12. Virus government -- A twenty-first-century genealogy of the 'dusk mask' as biopolitical technology / James Hay -- 13. Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19 / Yeran Kim -- 14. Predicting COVID-19 : wearable technology and the politics of solutionism / James N. Gilmore -- 15. Learning from Lana : Netflix's Too Hot to Handle/I, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture / Fan Yang -- 16. COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management / Ravindra N. Mohabeer -- 17. Parodies for a pandemic : coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown / Jon Stratton -- 18. Fashion in 'crisis': consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown / Rimi Khan and Harriette Richards -- 19. Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time / Elmo Gonzaga -- 20. No time for fun : the politics of partying during a pandemic / Nicholas Holm -- Un/knowing the Pandemic -- 21. Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless / Rebecca A. Adelman -- 22. The dead-end of ad-hocracy / Charles R. Acland -- 23. The spectacle of competence : global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world / Leon Gurevitch -- 24. The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths / Mette Hjort -- 25. Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture / Alexander J. Means and Graham B. Slater -- 26. Mistranslation as disinformation : COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism / Sheng Zou -- 27. Religion and urban political eco/patholog y: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia / Asif Mehmood, Sajjad Hasnain and Muhammad Azam -- 28. Doing cultural studies in rough seas : the COVID-19 ocean multiple / Elspeth Probyn -- 29. COVID-19 at sea : 'the world as you know it no longer exists' / Christiaan De Beukelaer -- 30. Back to the future : lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic / Allen Chun -- 31. Beyond the crisis : transitioning to a better world? / Ien Ang -- Index.
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