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Call for Papers
The Sociology of Pandemics: Crisis and Transparency in Social Order
Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph 19
Edited by
Robert Dingwall (Dingwall Enterprises/Nottingham Trent University),
Lily Hoffman (CCNY)
Karen Staniland (University of Salford)
Although the 2009/10 H1N1 influenza pandemic proved not to be a re-run
of the global catastrophe of 'Spanish flu' in 1918-20, relevant policy
communities regard it as a valuable rehearsal for the 'big one' that
most virologists still expect. Such crises make visible features of
social order that are ordinarily opaque to investigation, as Phil Strong
pointed out in his 1990 SHI paper on 'Epidemic Psychology.' Discussing
the parallels between the early years of the AIDS pandemic and societal
reactions to the Black Death in fourteenth century Europe, he echoes
themes articulated in a variety of mainstream sociological writing: the
French 'sociologie du spectacle' of Willener, Touraine and Morin; the
sociology of collective behaviour, with a lineage from Blumer and
Shibutani back through Park to Tarde and LeBon's critical writings on
mass society; and the modern sociology of disasters, accidents and
natural catastrophes, associated with Turner, Perrow, Vaughan and
Clarke. Pandemics are not, then, simple challenges to medicine: they
raise fundamental issues about social organization, the functioning and
interdependence of institutions and nations, the role of states and
civil society, and the normative assumptions embedded in each.
We have been invited by the Editorial Board of Sociology of Health &
Illness to assemble work, from the broadest possible range of
sociologists, considering pandemics and society. SHI is the leading
international academic journal in its field (5/114 in 2009 ISI Sociology
rankings). SHI Monographs appear both as a regular issue of the journal
and in book form. As is usual, submission involves a two-stage process.
The first phase is submission of abstracts - no longer than 800 words -
by 1 January 2011. These will be reviewed for quality and the balance
of the collection. A shortlist will be determined by 31 March 2011 and
the authors invited to develop articles - 6-7,000 words including
references - for return by 30 July 2011 and full peer review. The
Monograph is expected to be published early 2013. All abstracts should
be addressed to [log in to unmask]
The following list suggests some themes that might feature in the
monograph but we welcome ideas and suggestions from any sub-field within
sociology.
a. Pandemics and Collective Behaviour
i. The sociological understanding of fear, panic, mass emotion
ii. Responses to risk - implications for risk society thesis
iii. Mass communications - old and new media
b. Pandemics and Social Order
i. State and civil society - corporate interests, families, NGOs
and their roles in the crisis
ii. Pandemics as a problem for governance
iii. Pandemics as a challenge to the state's use of power - force or
self-discipline
c. Pandemics and health systems - global and national
i. The challenge of rationing
ii. Quarantine or liberty
iii. The responsibilities of health professionals - self-preservation
or self-sacrifice
iv. The search for evidence-based intervention and the rise of the
modellers - garbage in and garbage out?
d. The context of history
i. The impact of 1918 on 2009 - for good or ill?
ii. H1N1 and other pandemics - a pandemic society or one that has
forgotten mass disease?
Professor Robert Dingwall
Former Director, Institute for Science and Society
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