by Maureen Ryan
First published 2023
The year 2020 stretched endlessly as crisis followed crisis across the globe. Maureen Ryan assembles scholars from diverse fields to examine how that devastating year continues to shape our world. The contributors tackle the pandemic's ongoing effects, political upheavals, ecological disasters, and social transformations that defined 2020. They explore questions of time and history, investigating how past events created conditions for these simultaneous catastrophes. The analysis extends beyond immediate impacts to consider how breathing, architecture, and relationships between humans and other species have changed. Essays address race, gender, sexuality, and democracy through the lens of cultural and political theory. The global pandemic persists, demanding new understanding of our connections to viruses and nonhuman life. This interdisciplinary collection reveals how 2020's effects continue penetrating daily existence worldwide.
Genres: non-fiction, 21st-century, current-affairs, academic
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: interdisciplinary, social-commentary
Period: 2020
336 pages · Hardcover · Univ Of Minnesota Press