Pandemic of perspectives: creative re-imaginings

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Artworks -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Responses to Covid-19 -- Essential and Non-essential -- 'Social Distancing' -- Social Media -- Where Is the Communion? -- Diverse, Unequal Experiences -- Care and Labour -- Pandemic of Perspectives -- Touch -- Home and the World -- Governance -- Religion and Godlessness -- Creative Communications -- Questioning the 'Normal' and the Normative -- Education -- Of Trauma and Loss -- Creative Re-imaginings -- Looking Back, Looking Ahead -- Note -- References -- Touch -- Chapter 1: My Tango Life Cancelled: 8 March - 3 May 2020 -- Day 1: My Tango Life Cancelled -- Day 10: I Haven't Touched Anyone -- Day 21: My Skin Stings without Touch, Like Hands Submerged into a Winter River -- Day 30: The Great Fortune of a Pre-Covid-19 Death -- Day 56: Tango Is a Pain Worth Longing For -- Day 189: Broken Vows -- Chapter 2: Poems -- Come Eat My Lotus Heart -- Limits -- 'For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet' -- Chapter 3: Refugee Women from Different Continents Dance in a Circle -- Chapter 4: Poems -- My Mother, a Return Peace Corps Volunteer, Comments on the March 2020 Global Evacuation of Peace Corps Volunteers -- My Mother, a Sociologist with Breast Cancer, Tells a Story on May Day, 2020 -- My Mother Masters the Art of the French Omelette -- My Mother's Breast Cancer Surgeon Asks with Interest about Her Record of TB Treatment -- In a Time of Distance -- Chapter 5: Kartik's Last Words -- Home and the World -- Chapter 6: Plethora of Emotions Engulf the Everyday Life -- Chapter 7: Post-Covid-19 Urbanscape: Re-imagining Housing as Infrastructures of Care -- Introduction -- Social Distancing and Staying at Home -- Pandemic and the Resurfacing of Housing Crisis.