During this time of global crisis, we have decided to\u00a0turn our attention to COVID-19, focussing specifically on the sociological responses\/implications of the epidemic. Below are the readings we\u00a0 focus on each week. We aim to provide a space where diverse viewpoints are heard, and carry equal weight. We try to keep debate grounded in the material provided and usually chose the following\u00a0 readings according to the direction of discussion.<\/p>\n
If would like to join please contact Ginny\u00a0Russell<\/a>. A longer reading list on the topic of coronavirus is also being compiled by various academics and people in the sector. The full list is available here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk\/sociology\/research\/sts\/egenis\/coronavirus\/<\/a><\/p>\n Week 1: Week 2:<\/strong> Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Week 6: Week 7: Week 8:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 9:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 10:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 11:<\/strong> For those particularly interested in this topic, there are some optional extras:<\/p>\n Week 12:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 13:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 14:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 15:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 17: Week 18:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 19: Additional resources about long Covid:<\/p>\n Week 20:\u00a0<\/strong> Week 21:\u00a0<\/strong> During this time of global crisis, we have decided to\u00a0turn our attention to COVID-19, focussing specifically on the sociological responses\/implications of the epidemic. Below are the readings we\u00a0 focus on each week. We aim to provide a space where diverse viewpoints are heard, and carry equal weight. We try to keep debate grounded in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2899,"featured_media":1930,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nReadings<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>Ferguson et al. (2020) Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID- 19 mortality and healthcare demand<\/a>. Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.\u00a0BBC News article criticising Ferguson paper above on modelling:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-51979654<\/a>
\nSadati A K, B Lankarani M H, Bagheri Lankarani K. (2020) Risk Society, Global Vulnerability and Fragile Resilience; Sociological View on the Coronavirus Outbreak<\/a>, Shiraz E-Med J<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nSocial Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China.\u00a0<\/a>Chu\u0103ng
\n<\/em>Hanage, W. (2020) I\u2019m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain\u2019s \u2018herd immunity\u2019 coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire<\/a>. Guardian 15th March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Hannah, M. et al. (2020)\u00a0Thinking Corona measures with Foucault.
\n<\/a>Judith Butler. (2020) Capitalism has its limits<\/a>. Verso [online blog], 30 March<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Johnstone, L. (2020) Why it’s healthy to be afraid in a crisis<\/a>. Guardian 25th March 2020<\/em>.
\nIn response to: Daley, P. (2020) We face a pandemic of mental health disorders. Those who do it hardest need our support<\/a>. Guardian 24th March<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Racism is the root cause of ethnic inequities during covid-19<\/a>. Discover Society, 17th April 2020<\/em>.
\nTaylor, K. (2020) The Black Plague<\/a>. The New Yorker, 16th April 2020<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Caduff, C. (2020) What Went Wrong: Corona and the world after the full stop.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Nik Brown’s recent book Immunitary Life – please get in touch with Courtney if you would like access to this reading.<\/p>\n
\nGreenhalgh et al (2020)\u00a0Face masks for the public during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/a>
\nFriedman (2020) Face masks are in: What the US can learn from East Asia about face masks<\/a>.\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nIndependent SAGE Report 2. Should schools reopen? Interim findings and concerns.<\/a>
\nLeonard (2016) The sociology of children, childhood and generation.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJerreat (2020) ‘Coronavirus – the new scapegoat for media censorship, rights groups say<\/a>‘
\nWilliams (2020) ‘We often accuse the right of distorting science. But the left changed the coronavirus narrative overnight<\/a>.’\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCallard (2020) Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification<\/a>.
\nGreco (2012) The classification and nomenclature of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Conflict, performativity and critique<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nMel Salm (2020) Anthropocene Diseased: A Provocation<\/a>
\nNaomi Klein (2020) ‘We must not return to the pre-Covid status quo, only worse<\/a>‘\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nGruber, J. et al. (2020) Mental Health and Clinical Psychological Science in the Time of COVID-19: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call to Action<\/a>. American Psychologist<\/em>.
\nRose, N. (2020)\u00a0The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 \u2013 time for urgent action<\/a>.\u00a0Wellcome Open Research<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\nThis weeks discussion will be around different scientific responses to the covid-19 pandemic. In particular, we will be thinking about the following:<\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/strong>Hannah Arendt on social isolation\/totalitarianism – Where loneliness can lead<\/a>
\n‘Corona? 5G? or both?\u2019: the dynamics of COVID-19\/5G conspiracy theories on Facebook<\/a> by\u00a0Axel Bruns, Stephen Harrington, Edward Hurcombe<\/p>\n
\nKata A (2010)\u00a0A postmodern Pandora\u2019s box: anti-vaccination misinformation on the Internet<\/a>. Vaccine<\/em>. 28(7):1709\u201316.
\nFreeman D (2020) Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (oceans) II.<\/a>\u00a0Cambridge University Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The following\u00a0readings are about long Covid.<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe following readings are about the evolving use of language to describe COVID-19 over the last year, and the exacerbation of disadvantages (through the lens of gender).<\/p>\n\n
\nThis week’s theme are countries\u2019 differing approaches and messaging on COVID responses.<\/p>\n\n
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