Being Human During COVID-19

Paul Martin is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the iHuman Research Institute at the University of Sheffield.Warren Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.Stevienna de Saille is Research Fellow at the iHuman institute at the University of Sheffield.Kirsty Liddiard is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.

"Editors have given us an excellent new collection of essays with fresh, global perspectives on the sociology and politics of the pandemic... This collection stands out for demonstrating the value of collaborations across disciplines and for presenting so many new insights on the pandemic’s interaction with structural inequalities and the multifaceted implications for excluded and marginalized communities."

• Introduction - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren PearcePart 1: Knowing Humans1. Making Models into Public Objects - Rokia Ballo and Warren Pearce2. Pandemics, Metaphors and What It Means to Be Human - Brigitte Nerlich3. The Role of Everyday Visuals in ‘Knowing Humans’ During COVID-19 - Camilla Mørk Røstvik, Helen Kennedy, Giorgia Aiello and C.W. Anderson4. Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies - Stefania Vicari and Zheng Yang5. Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak - Carlos Cuevas-GarciaPart 2: Marginalized Humans6. Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic - Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole7. “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis - Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dan Goodley and the Co-Researcher Collective: Ruth Spurr, Sally Whitney, Emma Vogelmann, Lucy Watts MBE and Katy Evans8. Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India - Poonam Pandey and Aviram Sharma9. Pandemic: Satire and Human Hierarchies - Tanya TitchkoskyPart 3: Biosocial Humans10. Genomic Medicine and the Remaking of Human Health - Paul Martin11. Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times - Dawn Goodwin, Cliff Shelton and Kate Weiner12. “I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!”: Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment - Ros Williams13. Science Told Me (But I Couldn’t See Its Point) - Rod MichalkoPart 4: Human Futures14: Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? - Keren Naa Abeka Arthur, Effie Amanatidou, Stevienna de Saille, Timothy Birabi and Poonam Pandey 15. (Genome) Editing Future Societies - Michael Morrison16. Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World - Anna Pilson17. From TINA to TAMA: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism - Paul Graham RavenConclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce