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This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath. Following the virus in real time, it explores the fears, risks and responses to the global pandemic, and how it has shaped our everyday lives against the backdrop of social and political upheaval, and the looming climate crisis. Social theorist and moral philosopher, Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, discusses fundamental questions of inequality and injustice regarding race, class and gender brought to the fore by the visibility of varying risk levels, vulnerabilities and protections provided by legislative measures against the virus. This interdisciplinary analysis scrutinises values, ethics, responsibilities and uncertain futures formed by the global health crisis, and evaluates media and communications strategies, government responses and political communications at domestic and international levels. Seidler shares critical insights into the cultural history of pandemics, highlighting lessons to be learned from anticipating, preparing for and enduring moments of crisis. Perceiving how the pandemic and climate emergency are interwoven, the book concludes with an urgent call to rebuild sustainable economic, political and ecological imaginations. This wide-reaching volume will appeal to a broad academic readership in environmental studies, sociology, philosophy, health studies, cultural studies, gender studies, media and communication.

"This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread of the novel coronavirus, now known as Covid-19, as it emerged and travelled across the world. Following the virus in real time, it explores the fears, risks and responses to the global pandemic, and how it has shaped our everyday lives against the backdrop of the growing climate crisis. Social theorist Victor Jeleniewski Seidler discusses fundamental questions of inequality and injustice regarding race, class and gender that the pandemic has made visible, through the differing risks, vulnerabilities and protections provided by legislative measures. Situated across disciplinary boundaries, the text investigates values, ethics, responsibilities and uncertain futures created by the global health crisis, analysing media and communications strategies and government responses from the UK, and comparing them with political communications around the world. Throughout the book questions are raised around anticipating the pandemic, drawing on cultural histories and experiences in its critical analysis. In its conclusion it connects the global impacts of Covid-19 to the climate emergency and reveals how we are responsible for shaping new economic, political and ecological imaginations that focus on sustainability in planetary terms. This wide-reaching volume will appeal to a broad academic readership in environmental studies, health studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, media and communication"--

What can we learn about our society and the need to listen to each other in order to make sense of Brexit within a wider world? This book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring the anger against political elites as people felt estranged from a political process that no longer expressed their will.

Histories, memories and truthfulness -- Philosophy, politics and everyday life -- Modernities, differences and becoming human -- Generations, genealogies and authentic subjects -- New capitalism, masculinities, work and character -- Neoliberalism, work, technologies and ethics -- Modernities, masculinities, science and nature -- Modernity, bodies, politics and emotional lives -- Histories, traumas, truths and decolonisings -- Freedom, politics, theologies, ecologies and ethics.

Introduction: young men and masculinities -- Masculinities, histories, cultures and religions -- Listening, speaking and learning -- Questioning Adam : men, power and love -- Rethinking fatherhood -- Masculinities, bodies and emotional life -- Bodies, desires, pleasures and love -- Authority, identities, bodies and intimacy -- Bodies, ethics, fears and desires -- Friends, risks and transgressions -- Risks, fears, race and belongings -- Risk, self-harm, abuse and control -- Young men, bodies, sexualities and health -- Young men's sexual and reproductive health -- Young men, heroes, violence and conflict.

Introduction: remembering 9/11: terror, trauma and social theory -- Witnessing terror -- Terror, shock and mourning -- Recovering bodies -- Traumatic spaces -- Rage and retribution -- Protest and resistance -- Communicating terror and trauma -- Terrorism, war and ethics -- Modernity, islam and fundamentalisms -- Islam, civilisations and terror -- Hatred, global power and terror -- Freedom, anger and global power -- Rhetorics of war -- Conclusions

"Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality"--

1. Introduction identity, politics and experience -- 2 Consciousness-raising -- 3 Feminism -- 4 Self-denial -- 5 Morality -- 6 Emotional life -- 7 Work --8 Violence -- 9 Fascism -- 10 Therapy̜ -- 11 Politics -- 12 Conclusion recreating politics - socialism, feminism and ecology

"In the 1970s and 80s, 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 recognise the diversity, fragmentation and fluidity of identities, but how do we create and shape our own? Embodying Identities shapes a new language of social theory that allows people to embody their differences with a sense of dignity and self-worth, enabling them to come to terms with the complexities of their lived identities in a post-modern globalised world. The book recognises that we have to understand the networks of complex affiliations and belongings that shape identities. It draws on diverse traditions within classical social theory that have emerged from Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well as more recent traditions of critical theory and post-structuralism, to illuminate transitions from the modern to the post-modern. Using contemporary examples, Embodying Identities will be of interest to sociology, politics, social work, philosophy and cultural studies students. It will also be of value to social work practitioners and anyone attempting to understand how we form and live our complex and embodied identities"--Publisher's description

1. Introduction : respect, equality and the autonomy of morality -- 2. Respect and human nature -- 3. Respect and dignity -- 4. Respect, impartiality and the moral law -- 5. Respect, independence and self-sufficiency -- 6. Obligation and inequality -- 7. Liberalism, inequality and social dependence -- 8. Liberalism and the autonomy of morality.