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    Knowing COVID-19

    The pandemic and beyond

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    Contributor(s)
    Cooper, Fred (editor)
    Fitzgerald, Des (editor)
    Collection
    UK Research and Innovation
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Knowing COVID-19 looks at how different kinds of knowledge and meaning have been created and communicated, and the repercussions this has had – and continues to have – for how COVID-19 is managed, experienced, understood and remembered. Knowledge-making, it suggests, took various forms, and these are reflected in the diversity of chapters this volume curates. In the first instance, it demonstrates a rich humanities tradition of constructive critique, as ‘official’ communications around ‘staying home’, ‘keeping distance’, safety on buses, lateral flow testing and vaccine hesitancy are tested and interrogated. Through this collective work, we see one of the clear, indisputable values of the humanities; their attentiveness to the human, and the clarifying or reflective power this might have had with greater embeddedness in policy and information design. In the second instance – and frequently both are accomplished in the same short chapter – this volume collects a series of interventions which set out specifically to create and sustain meaning, particularly when dominant cultural narratives about the pandemic rely on those meanings slipping away from political or popular memory. Thus, we have rich and detailed explorations of the experiences of museum workers, people told to ‘stay home’, older victims of gender-based violence, people with deafblindness and racialised nurses working in the NHS; as well as extensive reflection on what it was like to make the projects which formalised this knowledge work. Taken as a whole, this volume critiques and redefines pandemic epistemologies, assembling a partial blueprint for making future crises legible.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92110
    Keywords
    Knowledge; communication; epistemology; humanities
    DOI
    10.7765/9781526178657
    ISBN
    9781526178657, 9781526178657
    Publisher
    Manchester University Press
    Publisher website
    https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    Manchester, 2024
    Grantor
    • UK Research and Innovation
    Classification
    Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
    Expert systems / knowledge-based systems
    Sociology
    Pages
    239
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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