{"product_id":"reconfiguring-global-societies-in-the-pre-vaccination-phase-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-hardback-9781487527075","title":"Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hardback) 9781487527075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJack Fong (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487527075\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 13 b\u0026amp;w figures, 4 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic\u003c\/em\u003e examines lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities and societies around the world before the arrival of vaccines. This collection presents analyses of scholars from eight countries, all of whom were engaged in the unfolding crisis of social forces across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely volume conveys valuable insights about how public officials, the state, healthcare workers, and, ultimately, citizens responded to consequences of the pandemic upon not only the body but also social relations in community, city, and society. The contributing scholars document how state apparatuses, urban configurations, places of employment, legal structures, and ways of life responded to crisis-altered social conditions during the pandemic. The book investigates what societies experiencing crisis around the world reveal about the state\u0026amp;#x2019;s efficacy and inefficacy in fulfilling its social contract for its citizens, especially on unresolved issues related to social relations based on politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and crime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together a cross section of scholars experiencing the same temporal moment of crisis together, watching and observing how the pandemic of their age uncoiled itself into the fabric of community, onto the institutions and bureaucracies of society, and into the most intimate confines of the home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFar East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Reconsidering the Third Place: Social Distancing and Inequality in South Korea during the Era of Coronavirus\u003cbr\u003eKelly Huh and Hyejin Yoon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Anthropocene, Zoonotic Diseases, and the State – Japan\u0026amp;#x2019;s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Criminal Negligence or Crimes Against Humanity? \u003cbr\u003eHiroshi Fukurai\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth and Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Witnessing Amidst Distancing: Structural Vulnerabilities and the Researcher\u0026amp;#x2019;s Gaze in Pandemic Times in Relation to Migrant Workers of India and Singapore\u003cbr\u003eAmritorupa Sen and Junbin Tan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Social distancing? \"No problem!\": Explaining Thailand\u0026amp;#x2019;s Successful Containment of COVID-19\u003cbr\u003ePiya Pangsapa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Trust in Numbers? The Politics of Zero Deaths and Vietnam\u0026amp;#x2019;s Response to COVID-19\u003cbr\u003eAmy Dao\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Global Address\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. An \"Unseen Enemy\" and the \"Shadow Pandemic\": Examining the Interface of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Domestic Violence\u003cbr\u003eShweta Adur and Anjana Narayan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnited States of America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. An Investigation into the Economic, Social, and Psychological Dimensions of COVID-19\u003cbr\u003eKevin McCaffree and Anondah Saide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Unsettling Contact: The Collapse of Emotional Distance at a COVID-19 Medical Frontline\u003cbr\u003eJunbin Tan and Phu Tran\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. A Spatial Snapshot of the Relationship Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Selected Crimes in California\u003cbr\u003eGabriele Plickert and Emily Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Employing Lyn Lofland and Ray Oldenburg\u0026amp;#x2019;s Urban Sociology to \"Read\" the Emptying of Los Angeles\u0026amp;#x2019; Publics\u003cbr\u003eJack Fong\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Union\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Trust between Citizens and State as a Strategy to Battle the Pandemic: Were Senior Citizens Merely Collateral Damage in the Swedish Government\u0026amp;#x2019;s Plan to Flatten the Curve?\u003cbr\u003eAnn-Christine Petersson Hjelm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The German Reaction to Corona: The Interplay of Care, Control, and Personal Responsibility within the Welfare State\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Scherr\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Benefits and Drawbacks of Social Distancing: Lessons from New Zealand\u003cbr\u003eMaria Armoudian and Bernard Duncan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. 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