Being Human During COVID-19

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This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19 for a more equitable and inclusive human future. Cutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. The authors use the crisis as a lens to explore the contours of contemporary societies and lay bare the ways in which orthodox conceptions of the human condition can benefit a privileged few. Highlighting the lived experiences of marginalised groups from around the world, this is a boundary spanning critical intervention to ongoing debates about the pandemic. It presents new ways of thinking in public policy, culture and the economy and points the way forward to a more equitable and inclusive human future.

Paul Martin is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the iHuman Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. Warren Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Stevienna de Saille is Research Fellow at the iHuman institute at the University of Sheffield. Kirsty Liddiard is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.

"There has never been a more important time to think about questions of what it means to be human. This book is a challenging read, inviting readers to consider the breadth of people's experiences during COVID-19, and is thought-provoking for post-pandemic times." Jenny Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University