List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Irene Gammel and Jason Wang
PART I
Crisis space and time
1 The deadly air we breathe: how infectious illness built the modern city
Mitchell Hammond
2 “Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?”: diary from a quarantined city
Irene Gammel and Jason Wang
3 Listening through a pandemic: silence, noisemaking, and music
David Cecchetto and Cameron MacDonald
4 Netflix and chills: on digital distraction during the global lockdown
Dominic Pettman
PART 2
Vulnerability and resilience
5 Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly
Geoffrey Scarre
6 “He’s thinking about sex, I’m thinking about survival”: women’s sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic
Breanne Fahs
7 “It’s like not a very Marshallese way of life”: marshallese cultural resilience during COVID-19
Ramey Moore, Pearl A. McElfish, and Sheldon Riklon
8 Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants 92
Christian Christensen
PART 3
Memory, visuality, and creativity
9 Threshold spaces: visualizing COVID-19 and the resilient power of the city
Irene Gammel and Natalie Ilsley
10 How drawing can help us see one another: from graphic medicine to diary comics
Emmy Waldman
11 Going digital in a small city hub: community theater and dog performance events during lockdown
Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler
12 Becoming Host: zooming in on the pandemic horror film
Simon Turner and Stuart J. Murray
PART 4
Adaptation, hope, and social change
13 Playing with the city: leisure, public health, and placemaking during COVID-19 and beyond
Troy D. Glover
14 Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability
Will Straw
15 The end of Kino as we know it? Reflecting on the future of cinemas in Germany and beyond
Claudia Kotte
16 What COVID-19 has taught academics: historical arguments for the future of in-person teaching
Kai Bremer
Coda by J. Michael Ryan
Bibliography
Index