COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations

Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures

By: Ananta Kumar Giri (Editor), Saji Varghese (Editor)

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Hardcover | 8 July 2025

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264 Pages

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This book unveils the challenges of living beyond Covid-19 navigating trauma, solidarity, and transformative futures.

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book engages with the challenges of transformations as a consequence of this. It brings reflections from several disciplines and thought practitioners from around the world. It explores challenges of transformations in economics, politics, self, science and society for living meaningfully in a post-pandemic world. It also explores pathways of creative planetary futures that we need to cultivate with and beyond Covid-19.

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"This courageous collection transcends both epidemiology and social engineering to treat the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for building a new vision of globality, humanity and solidarity, in which trauma can become one of the ingredients of a politics of hope." -Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA.

"As humans disturb the delicate balance of life-supporting ecosystems, pandemics such as COVID-19, will become more frequent and take higher tolls on human health. It is vital that we learn from past pandemics to safeguard the health of humans and the planet. This volume takes us beyond technical management of pandemics, to a wide range of psychological, social, ethical, political and spiritual insights that can help us to live in harmony with nature, with beauty, dignity and dialogue. It's a very timely volume with deep insights." -Paul Shrivastava, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA; Co-President, The Club of Rome, Italy.

"The book challenges conventional approaches to COVID-19 and encourages us to think about it and its implications for individual, community, society and the world in creative ways." -Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Professor of Political Science, Florida State College, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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