Description
| Product ID: | 9781032295534 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The COVID-19 Pandemic Series |
| Title: | COVID-19 in Brooklyn |
| Subtitle: | Everyday Life During a Pandemic |
| Authors: | Author: Jerome Krase, Judith DeSena |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social classes, Urban communities, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Medical sociology, Human geography, The environment, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Social discrimination & inequality, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social classes, Urban communities, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Medical sociology, Human geography, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life during a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown. COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown. Putting their private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase and DeSena discuss a wide range of research methods and theories, as well as print and internet media sources about the pandemic. With words and images, the scholar-activist authors place their own personal experiences and those of their family and neighbors inside the broader context of global and national medical emergencies, as well as related economic, social, and political unrest, such as widespread unemployment, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the contentious 2020 presidential election. Using a distributive social justice perspective and examining their own privileges, they discover and discuss the racial and economic inequities that affected the lives of other Brooklynites. These disparities included public health measures and lack of access to basic necessities of urban living. The book also addresses the cultural and economic shifts that took place at the start of the pandemic and contemplate how those forces will impact on future urban life, asking what the "new normal" of business, entertainment, education, housing, and work will look like locally and globally. This richly illustrated book offers an invaluable local study of the impact of the pandemic on ordinary people in Brooklyn. As such, it will be of great interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-07 |
