Full Description
Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic.
The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and struggle—factors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes including coping with the crisis through digital distractions, diary writing, and sounds; the unequal vulnerabilities of gender, ethnicity, and age; the role of visuality and creativity including comics and community theatre; and the hopeful vision for the future through urban placemaking, nighttime sociability, and cinema.
The book fills an important scholarly gap, providing foundational knowledge from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic through a consideration of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In doing so, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 expands non-medical COVID-19 studies at the intersection of media and communication studies, cultural criticism, and the pandemic.
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Irene Gammel and Jason Wang
PART I
Crisis space and time
1 The deadly air we breathe: how infectious illness built the modern city
Mitchell Hammond
2 "Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?": diary from a quarantined city
Irene Gammel and Jason Wang
3 Listening through a pandemic: silence, noisemaking, and music
David Cecchetto and Cameron MacDonald
4 Netflix and chills: on digital distraction during the global lockdown
Dominic Pettman
PART 2
Vulnerability and resilience
5 Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly
Geoffrey Scarre
6 "He's thinking about sex, I'm thinking about survival": women's sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic
Breanne Fahs
7 "It's like not a very Marshallese way of life": marshallese cultural resilience during COVID-19
Ramey Moore, Pearl A. McElfish, and Sheldon Riklon
8 Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants 92
Christian Christensen
PART 3
Memory, visuality, and creativity
9 Threshold spaces: visualizing COVID-19 and the resilient power of the city
Irene Gammel and Natalie Ilsley
10 How drawing can help us see one another: from graphic medicine to diary comics
Emmy Waldman
11 Going digital in a small city hub: community theater and dog performance events during lockdown
Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler
12 Becoming Host: zooming in on the pandemic horror film
Simon Turner and Stuart J. Murray
PART 4
Adaptation, hope, and social change
13 Playing with the city: leisure, public health, and placemaking during COVID-19 and beyond
Troy D. Glover
14 Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability
Will Straw
15 The end of Kino as we know it? Reflecting on the future of cinemas in Germany and beyond
Claudia Kotte
16 What COVID-19 has taught academics: historical arguments for the future of in-person teaching
Kai Bremer
Coda by J. Michael Ryan
Bibliography
Index
