New book titled 'Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges' published

The book ‘Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges’ edited with John Bryson, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon, is the first to explore 'Pandemic Recovery' framed within an analysis of recovery from all types of shock. It focuses on identifying and exploring different aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID-19 and is framed within a broader appreciation of other societal challenges, including anthropogenic climate change.  

No shock is ever isolated from other shocks and one recovery process will be complicated by further related and unrelated shocks and their recovery processes. Recognising this is a way towards the development of a social science of recovery but also preparedness for future shocks and fostering of resilience.  

The chapters in this book explore topics, themes, and specialisms that are shaping on-going discussions of recovery processes. It includes contributions from three other BSP researchers, Lucy Natarajan, Jo Williams and Rendy Bayu Aditya. Each chapter engages with a different aspect of recovery with a focus on unpacking recovery in practice, in various settings. It concludes by setting out a future recovery-focussed research agenda. The analysis is framed around five thematic sections exploring people, organisations, place, climate change and sustainability, and the policy and practice of recovery. 

Prof. Andres said: “This book is the second one focusing on the COVID-19 Pandemic. In 2021, we edited a book entitled 'Living with Pandemics: Places, People and Policy (Elgar)'. ‘Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges’ continues the analysis given the focus on pandemic recovery. It fits within a wider research agenda that I am pursuing through two separate large-scale projects: Panex-Youth (ESRC) and ADAPT4 (British Academy).” 

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