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Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice: Consumption and Public Life

Autor Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Robert Meckin, Leah Gilman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2023
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. 

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031457807
ISBN-10: 3031457803
Ilustrații: X, 99 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Consumption and Public Life

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Masks in the Pandemic, Masks in Everyday Life.- Chapter 2 – Masks and Materiality.- Chapter 3 – Masking and the (Re)making of the Public Realm.- Chapter 4 – Masks, Lay Moralities.- and Moral Practice.- Chapter 5 – Conclusion: Masks and Uncertainty.

Notă biografică

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
 


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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. We 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. We develop a relational perspective to explore the relationship between the materiality and moral significance of masking, and how this translated into thedevelopment 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. 
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



Caracteristici

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