Table of Contents
1. Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier, Racializations, 2. COVID-19 and the mundane practices of privilege, 3. Following the science? COVID-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing, 4. ‘Give me liberty or give me COVID!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency, 5. Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic, 6. Asian Americans as racial contagion, 7. COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies, 8. COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia, 9. The long and deadly road: the COVID pandemic and Indian migrants, Media, Data, and Fragments of the Popular, 10. New normals, from talk to gesture, 11. Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era, 12. Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology, 13. Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19, 14. Predicting COVID-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism, 15. Learning from Lana: Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture, 16. COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management, 17. Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown, 18. Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown, 19. Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time, 20. No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic, Un/knowing the Pandemic, 21. Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless, 22. The dead-end of ad-hocracy, 23. The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world, 24. The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths, 25. Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture, 26. Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism, 27. Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia, 28. Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple, 29. COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’, 30. Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic, 31. Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?