Overview
- Examines psychosocial transformations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to: time, space, death, hygiene, media, race, truth and technology
- Posits that the pandemic has caused both a rupture and a concertina-like distortion of time and space
- Promotes a longer-term psychosocial philosophy or ethos towards the new and the unexpected Demonstrates the broad church of approaches in psychosocial studies and the entanglements between bodies, minds, and societies
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Personal Experience of the Lockdown
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Entanglements of Power and Desire
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About this book
This edited volume examines the psychosocial transformations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, and envisions those that might lead to a more equitable society as we ‘open up’. The book integrates psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural studies, and psychology to address three main areas: personal experiences of the lockdown, new formations of power and desire that the lockdown has shaped, and global concerns related to the pandemic. Within those three areas, the chapters discuss key themes that include the uses of space during lockdown; experiences of death, loss, and domestic violence; race and the pandemic; technology, media, and viral media; chronic illness; handwashing and COVID-19; and conspiracy theories.
Drawing together academics and practitioners with a common vision of social justice and active pedagogy, the contents of this volume combine experiential writing with cutting-edge, theoretically-informed interdisciplinary debates. The book advancesand demonstrates the productive diversity of psychosocial studies, drawing on psychoanalytic theories, critical psychologies, critical theories, critical race theories, process philosophies, affect theories, and critical pedagogy. In doing so, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences.
Reviews
— Paul Stenner, Co-Director, Open Psychology Research Centre, Open University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Darren Ellis is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of Psychosocial Community Work at the University of East London, UK.
Angie Voela is a Reader in Social Sciences at the University of East London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: After Lockdown, Opening Up
Book Subtitle: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19
Editors: Darren Ellis, Angie Voela
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80277-6Published: 21 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80278-3Published: 01 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 302
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies, Psychotherapy, Critical Theory