Covid-19: the cultural constructions of a global crisis

Frosh, Paul and Georgiou, Myria ORCID: 0000-0001-8771-8469 (2022) Covid-19: the cultural constructions of a global crisis. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (3-4). 233 - 252. ISSN 1367-8779

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Abstract

This is the Introduction to the special issue on Covid-19 and the cultural constructions of a global crisis. Contextualizing understandings of the pandemic in relation to the concepts of ‘event’ and ‘crisis’, especially to the idea that modernity is itself a condition of perpetual crisis, it proposes that the pandemic is a crisis-event that catalyses new possibilities for making visible endemic inequalities and injustices across highly variable cultural and social domains, from the personal to the global. Always open to containment and appropriation, this crisis of visibility and invisibility is discussed as it pertains to the body, to space and social proximity, and to media and mediation. The individual contributions to the special issue are introduced in relation to these topics.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	18 May 2022 14:24
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 18:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115138

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