Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Section 1 Theorizing.- 1.  Risk in a Post-Truth Society, Joost Van Loon.- 2. The pandemic COVID19 and decision-making under uncertainty: The Norwegian government's handling of what is said and suppressed, Hafting, Tore.- 3. The Stock Market, Universal Intermediary Power, and State Support in the Face of COVID-19, Dean Curran.- Part 2. Inequalities and Rights.- 4.   COVID-19 in the Sahel : A multidisciplinary risk analysis, Bencherif, Adib.- 5. Social, health and environmental impacts of compulsory isolation in Buenos Aires' settlements, Tobías, Melina and Soledad Fernández Bouzo.- 6. On the justifiability of corona lockdown measures in India's context , Kritika Maheshwari.- Section 3 Governing COVID-19.- 7.  A tsunami of risk and uncertainty in slow-motion, Magdalena Gil & Eduardo A. Undurraga.- 8. Risk and shame in the English lockdown under Covid-19, Jo Warner.- Section 5 Trust and Distrust.- 9. Trust, lockdowns and risk assessment: opinions and behavior across the world, Minna Lundgren.- 10. Social distancing, isolation and lockdown: trust considerations during COVID-19 in Australia, Paul Ward.- Section 6 Public Discourse.- 11. COVID-19 in Argentina: Risks, Media, and Fears in Pandemic Times, Brenda Focas.- 12. Discourses around telework in the Brazilian banking sector: COVID-19 shifting framings of vulnerability and risk, Fernanda Sousa-Duarte.- Section 7 Everyday Life.- 13. Biographies of preparedness: from everyday life to Covid-19 pandemic, Kvarnlöf, Linda.- 14.The Ethics of Risk Research in the time of COVID-19: Privileging the Wellbeing of Girls and Women in the Context of Gender-Based Violence in Rural South Africa, Relebohile Moletsane & Claudia Mitchell.- 15. Risk, Mourning, Politics: The Loneliness of COVID-19 Deaths in Iran, Bayatrizi, Zohreh & Reza

Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Editor of the international journal Health, Risk & Society.



Jens O. Zinn is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, President of the Thematic group Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty of the International Sociological Association, and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.