This book explores how meaning-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically during the period of the April 2020 lockdowns, may be derived from shared lived experience among participants, residing in diverse geographical regions. This study conducted 46 in-depth interviews with Greek participants residing in 13 district countries and 23 cities around the globe and argues that meaning making of the pandemic derives from shared lived experiences of radical change and everyday transformations, fearful as well as well as hopeful perceptions of crisis and trauma emerging through loss of life before the pandemic.
Author(s): Anathasia Chalari, Eirini Efsevia Koutantou
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 145
City: Cham
Foreword—A strange situation
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
1: Prolegomena
Aims and Objectives
This Study’s Context
Rationale
Why Change, Crisis and Trauma?
Synergies
Approaches
Bibliography
2: Social Change and Crisis
Covid-19 Pandemic as Social Change
The Effect of Covid-19 as Social Change
Covid-19 Pandemic as Crisis
The Effect of Covid-19 as Crisis
Coping Strategies
Synopsis
Bibliography
3: Trauma
Introduction
Psychoanalytic Approaches on Trauma
Consequences of Experienced Trauma
Collective Trauma
Synopsis
Bibliography
4: Methodological and Methodical Processes
Methodological Considerations
Methods of Data Collection
Participants: Who Are They?
Analysis
Limitations
References
5: Experienced Change, Unsettlement and Crisis
Experienced Change
Unsettlement and Disruption
Experienced Crisis
Synopsis
Bibliography
6: Experienced Trauma Through Loss
Experienced Trauma
Collective Trauma of Loss
Synopsis
Bibliography
Epilogue
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