دانلود کتاب همه گیری ها و اپیدمی ها در بازنمایی فرهنگی

This book emerged out of thoughts and discussions generated by the catastrophic arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The global upheaval triggered by this once-in-a-century phenomenon (the last such major pandemic being the 1918 “Spanish” Flu) caused death and suffering, panic, isolation, and uncertainty on a scale which contemporary society has not experienced. The pandemic also ushered in paradigmatic shifts in the ways in which we live, work, interact, travel, socialize, and communicate, as people across the globe scrambled to adjust to the “new normal” of masks, sanitization, and “social distancing.” The last two years of our negotiation with COVID-19 have also more powerfully highlighted the deep schisms and tensions existing within local communities and nations as well as between countries as the pandemic, through its socioeconomic impacts across nation, race, class, gender, ethnicity, and politics, has revealed unequal human vulnerabilities, exposing the fraught fault lines within these different formations. Into its third year now, with new variants appearing at regular intervals, like the current Omicron spreading globally since the end of 2021, theCOVID-19 pandemic continues to powerfully (re)shape our lives, poignantly revealing both scientific inadequacy and human fragility and resilience.