Regional Studies and Globalization \ 1-1
The relatively indifferent attitudes in the first weeks, when the source and spread of the COVID-19 virus were associated with a foreign and distant place (Wuhan) and an other (Asian) identity, gave way to rapidly increasing social anxiety as the danger began to spread rapidly across borders and approach home, and with it media attention. also rose rapidly. These days and later, when danger enters the home, people have had a variety of rational and irrational responses to the risks of COVID-19.
In this case, it can be said that individuals and communities who have different experiences in different places, in the past and now, experience the pandemic in different ways, attribute different meanings to it and show different reactions. While it is necessary and important to understand the physical/biological causes and consequences of the pandemic, it is also necessary and important to understand how people experience it, how and in what ways they make sense of it in their life world. Undoubtedly, this task is a responsibility on the shoulders of social scientists. Collaboration between social scientists and practitioners is vital to understand the key social and cultural characteristics of the local contexts of pandemic-affected areas and to foresee how these will directly impact strategies and practices regarding pandemic response. In order to better control and prepare for pandemics, it is necessary to investigate their social, cultural, economic and political contexts. By focusing on this assignment, this book aims to make a modest contribution to the advancement of our knowledge and understanding of the reality of the pandemic in particular of COVID-19.
Consisting of five very comprehensive and twenty-three chapters, the book is the product of a continuing academic interest in the reality of natural and man-made disasters and offers a multidisciplinary view of pandemics in particular COVID-19. In this respect, the book gives the reader the chance to see how the pandemic phenomenon can be approached from different perspectives. While doing this, the book, which not only brings together experienced academics in the field, but also opens up space for young and talented researchers, sheds a questioning light on the pandemic situations of modernity.
In this case, it can be said that individuals and communities who have different experiences in different places, in the past and now, experience the pandemic in different ways, attribute different meanings to it and show different reactions. While it is necessary and important to understand the physical/biological causes and consequences of the pandemic, it is also necessary and important to understand how people experience it, how and in what ways they make sense of it in their life world. Undoubtedly, this task is a responsibility on the shoulders of social scientists. Collaboration between social scientists and practitioners is vital to understand the key social and cultural characteristics of the local contexts of pandemic-affected areas and to foresee how these will directly impact strategies and practices regarding pandemic response. In order to better control and prepare for pandemics, it is necessary to investigate their social, cultural, economic and political contexts. By focusing on this assignment, this book aims to make a modest contribution to the advancement of our knowledge and understanding of the reality of the pandemic in particular of COVID-19.
Consisting of five very comprehensive and twenty-three chapters, the book is the product of a continuing academic interest in the reality of natural and man-made disasters and offers a multidisciplinary view of pandemics in particular COVID-19. In this respect, the book gives the reader the chance to see how the pandemic phenomenon can be approached from different perspectives. While doing this, the book, which not only brings together experienced academics in the field, but also opens up space for young and talented researchers, sheds a questioning light on the pandemic situations of modernity.
Territorial boundaries were seen and studied as the subject of the discipline of geography and international relations until the early 1990s within the tradition of social science. From its emergence as a science until the 1990s, sociology did not take an interest in or ignore borders. However, both the territorial borders and almost every discourse, symbol and practice related to them are directly or indirectly related to the society. Because in the modern sense, borders are coded as sociopolitical spaces where society begins on one side and ends on the other. In other words, modern society is built in relation to both land (territory) and borders more than ever before. Almost all territorial borders impose a sense of national culture and identity on their citizens. In this respect, borders are drawn in people's minds as much as they are marked on the ground. Sometimes the boundaries drawn on the land may not have an exact correspondence in people's minds or cultures. In this case, territorial boundaries can be largely ineffective but also injurious. In any case, life and culture at the border; It can lead to passivity, inhibition, and many other interesting forms of sociological relationships.
In this book, the border is discussed from a sociological perspective, on the one hand, what it means in terms of nation-state, national homogeneity and culture and how it functions, on the other hand, how the border is perceived by border people and border communities, and how it plays a role in shaping the border culture.
In this book, the border is discussed from a sociological perspective, on the one hand, what it means in terms of nation-state, national homogeneity and culture and how it functions, on the other hand, how the border is perceived by border people and border communities, and how it plays a role in shaping the border culture.