Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Far East
1. Reconsidering the Third Place: Social Distancing and Inequality in South Korea during the Era of Coronavirus
Kelly Huh and Hyejin Yoon
2. The Anthropocene, Zoonotic Diseases, and the State – Japan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Criminal Negligence or Crimes Against Humanity?
Hiroshi Fukurai
South and Southeast Asia
3. Witnessing Amidst Distancing: Structural Vulnerabilities and the Researcher’s Gaze in Pandemic Times in Relation to Migrant Workers of India and Singapore
Amritorupa Sen and Junbin Tan
4. Social distancing? “No problem!”: Explaining Thailand’s Successful Containment of COVID-19
Piya Pangsapa
5. Trust in Numbers? The Politics of Zero Deaths and Vietnam’s Response to COVID-19
Amy Dao
A Global Address
6. An “Unseen Enemy” and the “Shadow Pandemic”: Examining the Interface of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Domestic Violence
Shweta Adur and Anjana Narayan
United States of America
7. An Investigation into the Economic, Social, and Psychological Dimensions of COVID-19
Kevin McCaffree and Anondah Saide
8. Unsettling Contact: The Collapse of Emotional Distance at a COVID-19 Medical Frontline
Junbin Tan and Phu Tran
9. A Spatial Snapshot of the Relationship Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Selected Crimes in California
Gabriele Plickert and Emily Cooper
10. Employing Lyn Lofland and Ray Oldenburg’s Urban Sociology to “Read” the Emptying of Los Angeles’ Publics
Jack Fong
European Union
11. Trust between Citizens and State as a Strategy to Battle the Pandemic: Were Senior Citizens Merely Collateral Damage in the Swedish Government’s Plan to Flatten the Curve?
Ann-Christine Petersson Hjelm
12. The German Reaction to Corona: The Interplay of Care, Control, and Personal Responsibility within the Welfare State
Albert Scherr
South Pacific
13. The Benefits and Drawbacks of Social Distancing: Lessons from New Zealand
Maria Armoudian and Bernard Duncan
14. Conclusion
Index
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