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Deborah Lupton

The Face Mask In COVID Times

A Sociomaterial Analysis

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The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID. Rather than Beck's 'risk society', we are now living in a 'COVID society', the long-term effects of which… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Southerton, Clare / Clark, Marianne / Watson, Ash
  • ISBN: 978-3-11-072325-0
  • EAN: 9783110723250
  • Produktnummer: 35451526
  • Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 80 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.5 cm
  • Abbildungen: 17 col. ill.

Über den Autor


Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor and the leader of the Vitalities Lab at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. She is one of the most highly published and cited social researchers globally, with long-established expertise in the sociology of medicine, public health, the body, risk, and digital technologies. She is the co-author/author of 17 books as well as editor/co-editor of eight edited volumes. Lupton is renowned for her accessible writing style in introducing social and cultural theory: for example in her previous books Medicine as Culture (now in its third edition), Risk (now in its second edition) and Fat (now in its second edition). Marianne Clark is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Vitalities Lab, Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney. Her work encompasses physical and digital cultures with an emphasis on women's and girls' embodied experiences of movement. Currently Marianne's work examines the affective dimensions of digital technology use and the ways embodied affects circulate in physical and digital spaces. She is the co-author of Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and co-editor of The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body (University of Alberta Press). Clare Southerton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Vitalities Lab, Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney. Her published research has explored the intersections of social media, privacy, surveillance and sexuality. Her current research projects are focused on how intimacy and collective affects are cultivated on platforms and with devices, and potentials in these spaces for health and sexuality education. Her work has been published in New Media & Society, Social Media + Society and Girlhood Studies. Ash Watson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Vitalities Lab, Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney. A former doctoral Endeavour Research Fellow, she now works on an Australian Research Council funded project exploring how people make sense of/with personal data-generating technologies. She is an internationally recognised leader in creative public sociology for her work with fiction and zines. Her debut novel Into the Sea was published in 2020. Her scholarly work has appeared in Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Research and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

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