France in the Age of Covid 19, Ed. French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 40. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. (Sponsored by the Institute of French Studies at New York University and the Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University)
This special issue predominantly discusses the nonmedical aspects of Covid-19’s impacts on France today including politics, intersectional feminism, online activism, the public humanities, artistic performance, and flânerie. It seeks to make sense of a crisis that is still unfolding via its effects on people’s beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors. It demonstrates how Covid-19 breaks through diverse ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, and ideological realms, and encompasses the undefined, infinite, and invisible “other” engaged in the same traumatic experience. It transgresses limits and norms so that we may elevate ourselves to a higher degree of awareness and responsibility.
