This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how we perform our identities, engage in social belonging and communicate with each other. Understanding the onset of the pandemic as a moment of cultural rupture, Cover provides a framework for understanding how selfhood, belonging, relationships and perceptions of time and space have undergone a disruption that not only is damaging to continuity and stability, but also provides positive value through renewal and the re-making of the self and ways of living ethically. The roles of disruption and interdependency are examined across an array of pandemic-related topics, including health communication, apocalyptic storytelling, lockdowns and immobilities, mask-wearing, social distancing, anti-vaccination discourses and frameworks for mourning the lost past and the uncertain future. By focusing on the pandemic's impact on identity, Cover explains and revisits theories of belonging to help us understand how new ways of perceiving our vulnerability may lead to more positive, inclusive and ethical ways of living.
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