The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World by R. Ward, Paul; Foley, Kristen;

Short description:

The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World offers a sociological examination of the lived impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through culture(s) of emotion, offering a refreshing contribution to a new and exciting sub-discipline.

Long description:

The study of how emotions are socially patterned is a young and promising field within sociology. This handbook offers a sociological examination of the lived impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through culture(s) of emotion – from hope to anger, optimism to grief, and courage to boredom.

The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World considers the dynamics and structures of affect as they have been experienced by local and global populations in a time of global health crisis. Advancing a theoretical agenda in the sociology of emotions and drawing from empirical evidence of emotional impacts, the authors cover a range of philosophical and methodological questions about how to study emotions, and why doing so is critical in turbulent times.

Including policy and planning insights for how to reconcile our emotional lives and collective experiences in a post-pandemic world, this collection is a refreshing contribution to a new and exciting sub-discipline; and is a compelling read for theorists, researchers, and students of the social, cultural, and political sciences.

[The Emerald Handbook for the Sociology of Emotions] cover[s] productions from the five continents, [and] it exposes how the pandemic generated changes in the prominence, pattern, and value of some emotions so that we can see the particularities of the different countries as well as the similarities between them. [...] Taking the relationship between bodies/emotions/environment for granted, the Handbook presents emotions from a sociological perspective at no time neglecting that these are physical-psycho-social processes.[...] it presents substantial contributions to thinking about the past, but in the 'meantime', without nostalgia -or nostalgic enough – to reflect on what we were, to think about what we are and to create what we can be."

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction - Pandemic-Emotions, Ontologies of Uncertainty, and Imagining Emotional Futures; Paul R. Ward and Kristen Foley

Chapter 2. Grief: Challenges to death, dying, disposal and grief in corona times; Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 3. Hoping in a COVID-19 world; Patrick Brown and Marci Cottingham

Chapter 4. Nostalgia and the corona pandemic: A tranquil feeling in a fearful world; Krystine I. Batcho, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Janelle L. Wilson

Chapter 5. Courage, Risks and Dating in the COVID-19 Crisis; Poul Poder

Chapter 6. Is Happiness a Fantasy only for the Privileged? Exploring Women’s Classed chances of being happy through alcohol consumption during COVID-19; Belinda Lunnay, Megan Warin, Kristen Foley, and Paul R. Ward

Chapter 7. Pandemic anger and semiotic meaning-making of loss of lifeworld freedoms; Kingsley Whittenbury

Chapter 8. Imagining Intimacy after COVID; Clare Southerton and Marianne Clark

Chapter 9. Constructing Heroism in the Time of Covid; Amir Marvasti and Travis Saylor

Chapter 10. Boredom, screens, and homesickness amidst the crisis; Patrick Gamsby

Chapter 11. Feeling and (Dis)trusting in Modern, Post-Truth, Pandemic Times; Kristen Foley, Belinda Lunnay, and Paul R. Ward

Chapter 12. ‘I want to remember how nice it felt to talk to someone’: Optimism and positive emotions in the linguistic reconstruction of COVID-19 lockdown experiences in the UK; Stella Bullo, Lexi Webster, and Jasmine Hearn

Chapter 13. Fear and Loathing in an Indonesian Island: an Ethnographic Study of Community Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic; Christopher Raymond and Paul R. Ward

Chapter 14. Popular soup kitchens: loving, feeding, and sharing; Adrian Scribano