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.