Our centre’s research diversity comprises, amongst others, much-needed work on Covid-19. Fran has just had a chapter published in RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic, edited by Kris Lovell (Coventry University). A link to the publisher’s page of the book can be found here:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110731002/html.
The book ‘provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical and sociological perspective. Using the first-hand testimonies submitted as part of the #RecordCovid19 project as its inspiration, the chapters in this edited collection explore and contextualise the initial responses to the Covid19 pandemic’.
Fran’s chapter explores the religious tropes in the rhetoric of Covid-19 in the UK. Focusing especially on “Covid-Saints” and notion of “sacrifice”, she explores contextualises the rhetoric re-configuration of national identity, morals and ideals during the pandemic, through the sociology of crisis and health communication.
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