CONTENTS

Foreword

Gregg Gonsalves

Introduction

Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles, and Rodrigo Ugarte

PART I. MAKING SENSE IN DISASTER

Chapter 1. Epidemic Origins and Geographies of Blame in the Time of COVID-19

Jacob Steere-Williams, Christos Lynteris, and Monica H. Green

Chapter 2. COVID-19 and Disaster Research: Continuities and Surprises

Kathleen Tierney

Chapter 3. Not All Disasters Are Disasters: Pandemic Classification and Its Consequences

Amanda Savitt and Samantha Montano

Chapter 4. COVID-19 and the Politics of Surveillance in South Korea

Myungji Yang

Chapter 5. The Politics of Producing Social Science Disaster Knowledge: From the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Cold War

Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger

PART II. DISASTERS COMPOUNDING

Chapter 6. A Crisis of Trust: Race, Policing, and Emergency Management in the United States

Rashawn Ray, Monica Sanders, and Scott Gabriel Knowles

Chapter 7. Understanding Race and COVID-19 in the United States: State Violence as Compound Disaster

Vivian Y. Choi

Chapter 8. The Effects of Reverse Migration on India’s Indigenous Communities Following the COVID-19 Lockdown

Nishaant Choksi, Sukanya Deogam, and Kalpesh Rathwa

Chapter 9. COVID-Cinema: Film and Media as Pandemic Archive in India

Anirban Kapil Baishya and Darshana Sreedhar Mini

Chapter 10. Misinformation and Conspiracies in COVID Times

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Luke J. Matthews, Carlos Villegas, and Joie Acosta

Chapter 11. COVID-19 Vaccine Politics and Policy in the United States: Implications for Democracy

Tanya Buhler Corbin and Courtney Page-Tan

Chapter 12. Disaster Multiplied: COVID-19 Bereavement

Emily Smith-Greenaway, Ashton M. Verdery, Rachel Margolis, and Haowei Wang

Chapter 13. Materialized Disaster: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Disposable Plastics

Hyunah Keum and Carl Zimring

PART III. TAKING CARE

Chapter 14. Human-Animal Relationships and Extension of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hyeonbin Park and Dolly Jørgensen

Chapter 15. Accounting for Care in Times of Crisis

Robert Soden, Jacqueline Wernimont, and Scott Gabriel Knowles

Chapter 16. From Disaster to Exhaustion: The Politics of Care Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Danya Glabau

Chapter 17. Extraction Is a Drug: A Brief Racial History of Pain, Policing, and Pandemics

Jih-Fei Cheng

Chapter 18. Kids Care: Children’s Concerns and Recognition of Social Inequalities in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill

PART IV. COPING WITH COVID REALITIES

Chapter 19. Marked By Covid’s Memory Activism

Christine Keeves, Kristin Urquiza, and Sarah Senk

Chapter 20. Archiving a Pandemic: The Pandemic Journaling Project as an Experiment in Anticipatory Archiving, Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography, and Archival Activism

Sarah S. Willen, Katherine A. Mason, and Heather M. Wurtz

Chapter 21. Mutual Aid, Tech, and the Problem of History

Dani Joslyn, Tyesha Maddox, and Robert Soden

Chapter 22. Long COVID Perspectives

Elisa Perego

Chapter 23. Social Science Research Ethics Beyond 2020: Lessons to Learn for Institutions and Funders

Alexa S. Dietrich

Epilogue. In COVID Times

George Aumoithe, Moon Jeong Choi, Alexa S. Dietrich, Kim Fortun, Scott Gabriel Knowles, and Lori Peek

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments