COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic

J. Michael Ryan is an award-winning teacher who has held academic positions at top-ranked universities across five continents. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and has previously held academic positions in Egypt, Portugal, Ecuador, and the USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Washington, DC where he led multiple projects aimed at improving national statistical survey methodology. He is the author (with Serena Nanda) of COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities (Routledge 2022) and (co-)editor of more than 15 volumes including COVID-19: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions (Routledge 2021), COVID-19: Consequences and Cultural Adaptations (Routledge 2021), and Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019). He is also the founding editor of Routledge’s The COVID-19 Pandemic Series.

1. Introduction 2. Surviving a Pandemic 3. Towards a Sociology of Catastrophe: The case of COVID-19 4. This is What I Grieve Now 5. Carceral Archipelago and Gulag of Grief: Hart Island 6. Pandemic Eugenics: The Delta variant, child mortality, and the new racism 7. Food Insecurity in the United States of America: A comparison between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic 8. Coping with COVID-19 in Lebanon: A Social Psychological Perspective 9. Disclosing One’s HIV Status during Indonesia’s COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges faced by mothers 10. Managing COVID-19 (and Gender): An analysis of US news coverage on reported menstrual disruptions and vaccines 11. The Significance of Ethnicity in Vaccination Uptake: Social psychological aspects 12. "Protecting Our Most Vulnerable": Vaccination targets, situated knowledges, and the needs of people with disabilities during New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown 13. Vaccines: Are we really all in this together?