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Record Nr.

UNINA9910725963903321

Autore

Krasny Elke

Titolo

Living with an Infected Planet : COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9783839459157

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages)

Collana

X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism

Nature

Sustainability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Worry and Hope -- Chapter 1: We Are at War -- Chapter 2: Serving at the Frontlines -- Chapter 3: Feminist Recovery -- Conclusion: We Care Therefore We Are -- Bibliography -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Living with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, life-making and death-making are at the center of global attention. Pandemic terms include COVID-19 response, frontline work, genocidal pandemic, lockdown, mask mandate, shadow pandemic, social distancing, vaccine wars, or virus racism. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the ›pandemicscape‹, looking at a wide range of sources including media coverage, policy by the WHO, the UN or the IMF, recommendations by NGOs and feminist organizations, but also ways of seeing care in photography and painting. Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global international care order.