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This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread Covid-19 as it emerged and travelled across the world. It will appeal to an academic readership in environmental studies, health studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, media and communication.

This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread Covid-19 as it emerged and travelled across the world. It will appeal to an academic readership in environmental studies, health studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, media and communication.

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The book questions how philosophy and social theory can help us to engage the everyday moral realities of living, working, loving and dying in new capitalism. It queries post-structuralist traditions, that for all their insights into the fragmentation of identities, often sustain a distinction between nature and culture.

The book questions how philosophy and social theory can help us to engage the everyday moral realities of living, working, loving and dying in new capitalism. It queries post-structuralist traditions, that for all their insights into the fragmentation of identities, often sustain a distinction between nature and culture.

Until recent decades, identities seemed to be fixed or socially constructed through categories of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexualities, and religion, as they were passed from one generation to the next. These days, we are much more able to choose who we want to be. We have begun to recognize the diversity, fragmentation, and fluidity of identities. But how do we create and shape our own? Embodying Identities explores social theories tha...

This book establishes a compelling framework within which to rethink the relation between self and society, identity and power. The author has provided a remarkable contribution to the growing sociology of intimacy and selfhood.

How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered. Rather we were to grow up 'normally', and to learn to turn our backs on the past as we struggled towards future identities w...

Until recent decades, identities seemed to be fixed or socially constructed through categories of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexualities, and religion, as they were passed from one generation to the next. These days, we are much more able to choose who we want to be. We have begun to recognize the diversity, fragmentation, and fluidity of identities. But how do we create and shape our own? Embodying Identities explores social theories tha...

This book establishes a compelling framework within which to rethink the relation between self and society, identity and power. The author has provided a remarkable contribution to the growing sociology of intimacy and selfhood.

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Urban Fears and Global Terrors After 7/7 explores the disruption around that day, taking people back to the events and the sense of loss, fear and mourning that followed. By framing a new landscape of urban fear Victor Seidler shows how new technologies helped to shape responses to a global terror that had been anticipated but was dreadful in its reality. By listening to the narratives people shaped for themselves Seidler shows the need for ne...