How to Live Through a Pandemic

Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, Jude Robinson, Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, Jude Robinson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032417097
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000883121
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countries and areas of the discipline, covering medical anthropology, care and surveillance, digital and experimental ethnography, and the everyday economies of lockdown. They show the breadth and originality of anthropological work relevant to thinking about and responding to pandemic situations. Extending beyond Covid-19, the volume considers the implications for ongoing and future research under pandemic restrictions and gives a broad overview of current anthropology relevant to questions about pandemics. It will be of interest to both academic and applied anthropologists, as well as to sociologists and those working in global and public health.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• Contributors
• 1 How to live through a pandemic: Introduction to the volume
• 2 On epidemiological consciousness and COVID-19: Envisioning vulnerability, hazard, and public health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom
• 3 COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: Pandemic preparedness and response
• 4 Modelling the new “social”: The evolution of risk assessments and mathematical modelling during the “first wave” of the pandemic
• 5 Digitalizing everyday life in Denmark during the corona crisis: The construction of an ethnographic archive
• 6 A difference of sameness: Home as a site of research in a study of Covid inequalities in Scotland
• 7 Lockdown and livelihoods in rural South India: Rethinking patronage and care at the time of Covid-19
• 8 Care and surveillance: The good citizens of Covid-19
• 9 Facing uncertainty: The social life of face coverings and defensive biopolitics during a pandemic
• 10 Afterword: Pandemic, hope and anthropological praxis
• Index