Global Sociological Insights: Women’s Resilience Amid COVID-19

Global Sociological Insights: Women’s Resilience Amid COVID-19

Professors Mariam Seedat-Khan from the UKZN School of Social Sciences and Johanna O Zulueta from Toyo University in Japan are pleased to announce the release of their two ground-breaking books, COVID-19 Sociological Interventions and Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work, and Community.

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work, and Community explores the unique experiences of women during the pandemic. The scholarship addresses how women have navigated the intersecting roles of family, work, and community in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. This book provides a comprehensive sociological perspective on the challenges and resilience of women during these trying times. 

Chapter contributors offer narratives that examine pervasive social problems intensified by the pandemic, further scrutinising context-specific socio-economic, labour, gender, and health conditions intersecting across race, class, gender, and geography. 

The innovative methodology in both volumes adhered to rigorous scientific and ethical standards under arduous conditions. Research findings presented are supported by sound theoretical frameworks establishing a link between theory, methodology and applied and clinical sociological practice. 

Seedat-Khan and Zulueta have drawn from their extensive expertise and research to produce these insightful volumes, which promise to be essential reading for those seeking a deeper understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic from a sociological lens. They have drawn sociological expertise on the subject of COVID-19 from Asia, Europe, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Americas, Türkiye and Zimbabwe. 

The edited collections are essential companions for postgraduate students, researchers, governments and affiliated organs, political parties, foundations, non-governmental organisations, multi-lateral organisations, consulting companies, international bodies, investment organisations, policy advisors, think tanks, stakeholders in private sector, consultants, community stakeholders, alternative media propagators and practitioners. 

To celebrate the release of these books, a series of promotional events and activities will be organised, including virtual author talks and panel discussions on the sociological impact of COVID-19. For more information about the books, please visit their respective publishers’ websites: 

COVID-19 Sociological Interventions: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003267133/women-covid-19-mariam-seedat-khan-johanna-zulueta

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work, and Community: https://frontpagepublications.com/book/covid-19-sociological-interventions/

About the editors

Professor Mariam Seedat-Khan is a National Research Foundation rated researcher and one of 40 internationally certified clinical sociologists. She serves as the immediate past vice president for the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) and the current vice president of the International Sociological Association RC46 Clinical Sociology. She is a member of the Commission on the Accreditation of Programs in Applied and Clinical Sociology (CAPACS); member of UKZN’s Imbokodo – Women in Leadership; Chair of the Professor Fatima Meer Memorial Lecture Committee (PFMMLC) Archives and Special Collections; and visiting professor at Taylor University in Malaysia.

Johanna O Zulueta, PhD, is Professor in the Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University, Japan. Her main research interest is on migrations in East Asia, looking at ethnicity, gender, citizenship, home and ageing. She has had visiting appointments at Thammasat University, the University of Malaya, Taylor’s University (Malaysia), University of South Australia’s Hawke Research Institute and Seoul National University Asia Centre. She is a steering committee member of the Philippine Migration Research Network and is currently on the Executive Board (as Secretary-Treasurer) of the Research Committee on Clinical Sociology (RC 46) of the International Sociological Association. She is also on the editorial board of the Clinical Sociology Review and the Japan Association for Migration Studies’ annual journal. 

Words: NdabaOnline

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