Cascading Crises

Society in the Age of Covid-19

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ID3759199
AuthorsLaura Robinson (0000-0001-9022-9375, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA, corresponding author), Jeremy Schulz (0000-0002-8659-9442, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA), Christopher Ball (0000-0003-2164-4107, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA), Cara Chiaraluce (Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA), Matias Dodel (0000-0002-1724-9609, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay), Jessica Francis (0000-0002-2216-3922, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Jessica E Francis (0000-0001-8033-8690, University of Michigan), Kuo-Ting Huang (0000-0001-5426-558X, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA), Elisha Johnston (El Camino College, Torrance, CA, USA), Aneka Khilnani (0000-0002-8507-0184, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA), Oliver Kleinmann (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA), K Hazel Kwon (0000-0001-7414-6959, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA), Noah Mcclain (0000-0002-4285-1546, ESMC, New York, NY, USA), Yee Man Margaret Ng (0000-0001-5043-9159, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA), Heloisa Pait (São Paulo State University, Julio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo, Brazil), Massimo Ragnedda (0000-0002-9985-094X, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), Bianca C Reisdorf (0000-0002-0690-1956, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA), Maria Laura Ruiu (0000-0003-1136-0389, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), Cinthia Xavier Da Silva (Department of Education of São Paulo State, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Juliana Maria Trammel (Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, USA), Øyvind N Wiborg (0000-0001-6826-609X, University of Oslo and Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway), Apryl A Williams (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Apryl Williams (0000-0003-4896-9366, University of Michigan)
Year2021
Volume65
Issue12
Pages1608-1622
Publication date2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642211003156
PMID38602993
OpenAlexW3156924328
LanguageEN
Citations received15

The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across time and space for over a year, leaving an unusually broad range of second-order and third-order harms in its wake. Globally, the unusual conditions of the pandemic-unlike other crises-have impacted almost every facet of our lives. The pandemic has deepened existing inequalities and created new vulnerabilities related to social isolation, incarceration, involuntary exclusion from the labor market, diminished economic opportunity, life-and-death risk in the workplace, and a host of emergent digital, emotional, and economic divides. In tandem, many less advantaged individuals and groups have suffered disproportionate hardship related to the pandemic in the form of fear and anxiety, exposure to misinformation, and the effects of the politicization of the crisis. Many of these phenomena will have a long tail that we are only beginning to understand. Nonetheless, the research also offers evidence of resilience on several fronts including nimble organizational response, emergent communication practices, spontaneous solidarity, and the power of hope. While we do not know what the post COVID-19 world will look like, the scholarship here tells us that the virus has not exhausted society's adaptive potential

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Isolation (microbiology) · Misinformation · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychological resilience · Social distance · Sociology · Solidarity · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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