From Crisis to Catastrophe Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

EDITED BY MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN

“The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of carework in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy.”

—Joya

Misra, co-author of The New Handbook of Political Sociology

“From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.”

—Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina

In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on the recent crisis centered on the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID-19.

MIGNON DUFFY is associate professor and chair of the sociology department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

AMY ARMENIA is professor and chair of sociology at Rollins College. .

KIM PRICE-GLYNN is associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

Care Work in a Changing World

192 pp

4 color and 1 b/w mages, 1 table

6.125 x 9.25

978-1-9788-2684-7 paper $34.95S

978-1-9788-2685-4 cloth $120.00SU

April 2023

Medical Anthropology • Public Health