Overview
- Explores masking during the pandemic from an everyday life perspective
- Approaches the topic of masking in terms of material, interactional, and moral practice
- Presents a framework that encompasses relationality and everyday life, morality, materiality and socio-technical studies
Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)
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About this book
This book assumes an “everyday life” perspective towards masking in public spaces in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facemasks are perhaps one of the most tangible ways in which the changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic were made visible. In the space of a few months in 2020, masking in the UK went from being almost non-existent in public to becoming widespread, both before and after the UK government mandated masking in most enclosed public spaces in July 2020. In this context, the speed and scale of the introduction of masking in public settings offers sociologists a rare chance to document the (contested) emergence of a new social practice. The authors argue that the nature of masking during the pandemic means that masking practices need to be understood through the entwinement of material, interactional, and moral dimensions. By developing a relational perspective to explore the relationship between the materiality and moral significance of masking, and how this translated into the development of masking practices in public spaces, the authors argue further that the specific context of masking during the pandemic provides sociologists with a unique lens to think through the nature of material, interactional, and moral practices in general.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Owen Abbott, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Cardiff University, UK
Vanessa May, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Sophie Woodward, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Robert Meckin, Presidential Fellow, University of Manchester, UK
Leah Gilman, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Masking in the Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice
Authors: Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Robert Meckin, Leah Gilman
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45781-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45780-7Published: 24 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45781-4Published: 23 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 99
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Consumer Behavior, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy