Overview

While there has been an abundance of scientific works on the COVID-19 crisis, there has been relatively little research to date from the humanities. This striking new book seeks to address the immediacy of COVID-19 by focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context – through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. From Europe to South America, Asia and beyond, Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis sets out a framework for understanding the COVID-19 virus beyond its epidemiological constraints, asking us to question the very definition of what it means to be human. Researchers from around the world offer their critical reflections on the past, present, and future of this period of sociocultural upheaval and the tremendous suffering that has laid bare fundamental imbalances in our society. Featuring essays on public welfare versus private interest, violence against women, mask compliance, conspiracy theories and national security laws, this book is a significant contribution to understanding our new 'post-COVID' landscape, and the future yet to come.

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Author:   Carl F. Stychin (Director and Professor of Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London)
Publisher:   University of London
Imprint:   University of London Press
ISBN:  

9781911507307

ISBN 10:   1911507303
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Carl F. Stychin   1. Public Interest or Social Need? Reflections on the Pandemic, Technology and the Law Dimitrios Kivotidis   2. COVID, Commodification and Conspiracism David M. Seymour   3. Counting the Dead During a Pandemic Marc Trabsky   4. The Law and the Limits of the Dressed Body: Masking Regulation and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in Australia Marc De Vitis and David J Carter   5. Walls and Bridges: Framing Lockdown through Metaphors of Imprisonment and Fantasies of Escape David Gurnham   6. Penal Response and Biopolitics in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Indonesian Experience Harison Citrawan and Sabrina Nadilla   7. The Pandemic and Two Ships Renisa Mawani and Mikki Stelder   8. Women, Violence and Protest in times of COVID-19 Kim Barker and Olga Jurasz   9. COVID-19 and the Legal Regulation of Working Families Nicole Busby and Grace James   10. Law, Everyday Spaces and Objects, and Being Human Jill Marshall   11. Pandemic, Humanities and The Legal Imagination of The Disaster Valerio Nitrato Izzo   12. Prospects for Recovery in Brazil: Deweyan Democracy, the Legacy of Fernando Cardoso and the Obstruction of Jair Bolsonaro Frederic R Kellogg, George Browne Rego and Pedro Spindola B Alves

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Carl F. Stychin is director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and professor of law in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

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