Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures, Images, and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xv
6. Introduction 1
7. The Far East
8. 1 Reconsidering the Third Place: Social Distancing and Inequality in South Korea during the Era of Coronavirus 33
9. 2 The Anthropocene, Zoonotic Diseases, and the State – Japan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Criminal Negligence or Crimes against Humanity? 56
10. South and Southeast Asia
11. 3 Witnessing amidst Distancing: Structural Vulnerabilities and the Researcher’s Gaze in Pandemic Times in Relation to Migrant Workers of India and Singapore 85
12. 4 Social Distancing? “No Problem!”: Explaining Thailand’s Successful Containment of COVID-19 110
13. 5 Trust in Numbers? The Politics of Zero Deaths and Vietnam’s Response to COVID-19 134
14. A Global Address
15. 6 An “Unseen Enemy” and the “Shadow Pandemic”: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Domestic Violence 157
16. The United States
17. 7 An Investigation into the Economic, Social, and Psychological Dimensions of COVID-19 177
18. 8 Unsettling Contact: The Collapse of Emotional Distance at a COVID-19 Medical Frontline 200
19. 9 A Spatial Snapshot of the Relationship between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Selected Crimes in California 221
20. 10 Employing Lyn Lofland’s and Ray Oldenburg’s Urban Sociology to “Read” the Emptying of Los Angeles’ Publics 245
21. European Union
22. 11 Trust between Citizens and State as a Strategy to Battle the Pandemic: Were Senior Citizens Collateral Damage in the Swedish Government’s Plan to Flatten the Curve? 275
23. 12 The German Reaction to Corona: The Interplay of Care, Control, and Personal Responsibility within the Welfare State 301
24. South Pacific
25. 13 The Benefits and Drawbacks of Social Distancing: Lessons from New Zealand 327
26. Conclusion 361
27. Contributors 381
28. Index 383