Creative resilience and COVID-19 : figuring the everyday in a pandemic

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Creative resilience and COVID-19 : figuring the everyday in a pandemic

edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang

(The COVID-19 pandemic series / series editor, J. Michael Ryan)

Routledge, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-223) and index

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Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic. The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and struggle-factors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes including coping with the crisis through digital distractions, diary writing, and sounds; the unequal vulnerabilities of gender, ethnicity, and age; the role of visuality and creativity including comics and community theatre; and the hopeful vision for the future through urban placemaking, nighttime sociability, and cinema. The book fills an important scholarly gap, providing foundational knowledge from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic through a consideration of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In doing so, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 expands non-medical COVID-19 studies at the intersection of media and communication studies, cultural criticism, and the pandemic.

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List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Irene Gammel and Jason Wang PART I Crisis space and time 1 The deadly air we breathe: how infectious illness built the modern city Mitchell Hammond 2 "Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?": diary from a quarantined city Irene Gammel and Jason Wang 3 Listening through a pandemic: silence, noisemaking, and music David Cecchetto and Cameron MacDonald 4 Netflix and chills: on digital distraction during the global lockdown Dominic Pettman PART 2 Vulnerability and resilience 5 Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly Geoffrey Scarre 6 "He's thinking about sex, I'm thinking about survival": women's sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic Breanne Fahs 7 "It's like not a very Marshallese way of life": marshallese cultural resilience during COVID-19 Ramey Moore, Pearl A. McElfish, and Sheldon Riklon 8 Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants 92 Christian Christensen PART 3 Memory, visuality, and creativity 9 Threshold spaces: visualizing COVID-19 and the resilient power of the city Irene Gammel and Natalie Ilsley 10 How drawing can help us see one another: from graphic medicine to diary comics Emmy Waldman 11 Going digital in a small city hub: community theater and dog performance events during lockdown Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler 12 Becoming Host: zooming in on the pandemic horror film Simon Turner and Stuart J. Murray PART 4 Adaptation, hope, and social change 13 Playing with the city: leisure, public health, and placemaking during COVID-19 and beyond Troy D. Glover 14 Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability Will Straw 15 The end of Kino as we know it? Reflecting on the future of cinemas in Germany and beyond Claudia Kotte 16 What COVID-19 has taught academics: historical arguments for the future of in-person teaching Kai Bremer Coda by J. Michael Ryan Bibliography Index

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