The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
About the Book Series
COVID-19 Pandemic Series
Series Editor: J. Michael Ryan
This series examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, countries, and the larger global society from a social scientific perspective. It represents a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to what many believe to be the greatest threat to global ways of being in more than a century. It is imperative that academics take their rightful place alongside medical professionals as the world attempts to figure out how to deal with the current global pandemic, and how society might move forward in the future. This series represents a response to that imperative.
Contributors are welcome to submit proposals related to any topic and how it relates to the pandemic, including, but not limited to, the following general topics:
Higher education
Race/racism
Gender and sexual minorities
Increasing forms of inequality
Senior individuals
National responses to a global pandemic
Conceptual innovations
Masks, social distancing, and other preventative measures
Leisure and travel
Mental health
Parenting
Technology
To submit a proposal please contact the Series Editor J. Michael Ryan ([email protected])
Moral Panics and Social Control in the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Morena Tartari, Cirus Rinaldi, Riccardo Caldarera
September 17, 2025
Moral Panics and Social Control in the COVID-19 Pandemic presents a series of case studies which focus on particular social processes and interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, applying the tools offered by classical studies on moral panic and moral panic theory to illuminate both political and...
Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age
1st Edition
By Sean Creaven
May 06, 2025
Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk. Contagion Capitalism therefore critiques the institutionalized ...
Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19
1st Edition
By Sean Creaven
May 06, 2025
Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic. The book focuses on key themes ...
Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariam Seedat-Khan, Johanna O. Zulueta
December 18, 2024
Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on women’s lived experiences amid the pandemic, emphasising migrant labourers, ethnic minorities, the poor and disenfranchised, the incarcerated, and victims of gender-based violence, to explore the ...
Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Michael Ryan, Valerie Visanich, Gaspar Brändle
July 11, 2024
This volume explores how researchers made innovative use of online technologies to innovate, define, and transform research methodologies in light of the varying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those related to the ability to conduct qualitative research. The onset of the COVID-19 ...
Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Morena Tartari, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Cirus Rinaldi
July 05, 2024
Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic analyses the phenomena of moral panics surrounding so-called folk devils in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, internationally recognised moral panic scholars from disciplines including sociology, media studies, criminology, ...
Viral World: Global Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Long T. Bui
June 07, 2024
This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world. Following multiple case studies across dozens of countries throughout the course of the pandemic, this book is a timely...
COVID-19 and the Right to Health in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ebenezer Durojaye, Roopanand Mahadew
May 28, 2024
This collection draws upon a range of thematic and regional case studies and uses the right to health as a normative framework to explore the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Drawing lessons from across the continent, the book discusses the challenges faced by African states ...
COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos de Castro, Andrés Pedreño, Marta Latorre
May 27, 2024
Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. This book originates in the great upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic when the unprecedented announcement of global ...
Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Game-Based Learning
1st Edition
By Emily K. Johnson, Anastasia Salter
May 27, 2024
Educational technology adoption is more widespread than ever in the wake of COVID-19, as corporations have commodified student engagement in makeshift packages marketed as gamification. This book seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the need for a pedagogy of ...
Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Maddanu, Emanuele Toscano
March 29, 2024
This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light...
Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19: Impact on Humanity
1st Edition
Edited
By Suresh Nanwani, William Loxley
March 19, 2024
Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the development trajectory of schools, public health, the workforce, and technology adoption. It explores social themes in society, economy, policy, and culture ...