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Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond

Author(s) -

Jens O. Zinn

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

current sociology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1461-7064

pISSN - 0011-3921

DOI - 10.1177/00113921211023518

Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , pandemic , ignorance , sociology , covid-19 , environmental ethics , lifeworld , perspective (graphical) , competition (biology) , social science , economic geography , political economy , political science , economics , law , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , embedded system , ecology , medicine , philosophy , disease , pathology , virology , artificial intelligence

This conclusion revisits the COVID-19 pandemic from the broader perspective of a changing global world. It raises questions regarding the opportunities for global learning under conditions of global divisions and competition and includes learning from the Other, governing within a changing public sphere, and challenging national cultural practices. Moreover, it exemplifies how the society–nature–technology nexus has become crucial for understanding and reconstructing the dynamics of the coronavirus crisis such as the assemblages of geographical conditions, technological means and the governing of ignorance, the occurrence of hotspots as well as living under lockdown conditions. It finishes with some preliminary suggestions how reoccurring pandemics might contribute to long-term changes in human attitudes and behaviour towards the environment and a technologically shaped lifeworld.

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