COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations

Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures

Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Saji Varghese

Publication date:

08 July 2025

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839991684

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book engages with the challenges of transformations as a consequence of this. It brings reflections from several disciplines and thought practitioners from around the world. It explores challenges of transformations in economics, politics, self, science and society for living meaningfully in a post-pandemic world. It also explores pathways of creative planetary futures that we need to cultivate with and beyond Covid-19.

Foreword- Paul Schwartzentruber; Preface; Notes on Editors and Contributors; COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations: An Introduction and An Invitation-Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese; Part I COVID-19 AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATIONS: ETHICS, POLITICS AND RESPONSIBILITY, Chapter 1 COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility: Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures-Ananta Kumar Giri; Chapter 2 Post-COVID Communities: Immanent Engagements and Intersectional Transversality-Janae Sholtz; Chapter 3 On the Political Use of a Scientific Concept: ‘Herd Immunity’ and the Unconscious of the COVID-19 Pandemic-Piet Strydom; Chapter 4 Citizen Science, COVID-19 and Ethics- Soraj Hongladarom; Chapter 5 Biopolitics in the Age of Global Pandemics: On the State Regulation of Human Life-Tony See Sin Heng; Chapter 6 Sri Lanka: Politics of COVID-19 and the Rise and Fall of Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government-S. I. Keethaponcalan; Chapter 7 COVID-19 Pandemic: Societal Disvalues as the Ethical Questions-Pius V. Thomas; Chapter 8 The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Life and Public Health-Ravichandran Moorthy and Guido Benny; Part II COVID-19, SPIRITUALITY AND OTHER INITIATIVES IN HOPE AND CREATIVE LEARNING, Chapter 9 What can COVID teach us?-Marcus Bussey; Chapter 10 COVID-19, Social Media, and Desire for Omnipresence: The Search for the Resurrected Body of Christ-Camila Mozzini-Alister; Chapter 11 Corona Pandemic, Evil and the Hope for a Resurgent Future- Gianluigi Segalerba; Chapter 12 The Freedom of Choice in the Face of a Pandemic-Daniel Aigbona; Chapter 13 The Current Crisis due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Philosophical Approach on technological way of handling nature- Deborah Moreira Guimaraes; Chapter 14 COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Global Approach Through Breathing- Edgar Lyra; Chapter 15 Reminder of Being a Global ‘Self’-Saji Varghese; Chapter 16 Beyond the Binaries: Cosmic Spirituality for the Pandemic Age- Augustine Pamplany; Afterword-David Blake Willis; Index

“This courageous collection transcends both epidemiology and social engineering to treat the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for building a new vision of globality, humanity and solidarity, in which trauma can become one of the ingredients of a politics of hope.” —Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA.