Collection

Marine Social Science Imaginations of Covid-19

Submission status
Closed

The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world from 2019 to 2023 was a public health emergency with myriad social and economic side-effects. In line with many other scholars, marine social scientists have attempted to document how the lives of fishers, oil platform workers, tourist sector workers, marine spatial planners and others were profoundly altered. The editorial team of Maritime Studies circulated a call for papers on this topic in May 2020, in response to which this collection was produced. Per Larsson and Maarten Bavinck composed an introductory essay. The collection gathers unique insights into the marine world of the pandemic across a broad diversity of contexts and sectors in Africa, Asia, South- and North America, as well as Europe. In addition to empirical descriptions of extraordinary hardship and adaptability, many contributions point out how the extraordinary consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic can be used as a lens through which existing structures and dynamics of vulnerability, as well as the set of obstacles and opportunities for adaptive responses, have become supremely visible.

Editors

  • Per Knutsson Per Knutsson  &

    Per Knutsson

    School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 700, 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden

  • Maarten Bavinck Maarten Bavinck

    Maarten Bavinck

    Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1001, Amsterdam, NC, the Netherlands

Articles (15 in this collection)