Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic

Abdul Karim Bangura

doi:10.5771/9781666912203

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This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors provide international perspectives on the effects of this “corohysteria” in areas such as education, healthcare, religion, psychology, mathematics, economics, media, racism, politics, etc. They argue the hysteria, angst, fear, unrest, and difficulties associated with the pandemic are exploited to foster political and social agendas and have led to the undermining of national and global responses to the virus.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1219-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1220-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 566
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Hysteria: A Theoretical Discussion No access
2. 1. Assessing a Community’s Health No access
  2. Making Individual Decisions No access
  3. Completing the Clinical Picture No access
  4. Searching for Causes and Public Health Surveillance No access
  5. Field Investigation, Analytic Studies, and Evaluation No access
  6. Case Definitions No access
3. References No access
1. Theoretical Perspectives No access
2. 1. Growth of University Education in Kenya No access
3. Universities Closure and the Autonomy Question No access
4. Crisis Management in University Education No access
5. 1. Strategic Intervention: The Case of the United States International University-Africa No access
  2. Pressures at USIU-Africa No access
  3. Incremental Intervention: The Case of Mount Kenya University (MKU) No access
  4. Partial Paralysis: The Case of Kenyatta University No access
  5. Complete Paralysis: The Case of Technical University of Kenya No access
  6. Conclusions and Recommendations: Contextualizing Responses and Lessons Learned No access
  7. Context of Responses No access
  8. Lessons Learned and the Way Forward No access
6. References No access
1. Theoretical Framework: Theorizing Expertise No access
2. Methodology No access
3. 1. Coronaviruses in Human Beings No access
4. 1. Coronavirus COVID-2019 Messaging and Its Effects on People No access
5. 1. Remedies for COVID-2019 No access
6. Case Study 3: Freelance Coro-experts: Social Media Messaging on COVID-2019 No access
7. Some Recommendations on the Dissemination of Information on COVID-2019 No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. Theoretical Discourse No access
2. Development of Elitism in Nigeria No access
3. Government’s Response to COVID-2019 in the Principle of Selective Engagement No access
4. The Hysteria No access
5. Inequality in Nigeria and the Hysteria of COVID-2019 No access
6. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
7. References No access
1. Theoretical Discussion of Poverty No access
2. 1. The Poverty of Living Standards in Nigeria No access
  2. Health Poverty in Nigeria No access
  3. The Poverty of Education in Nigeria No access
3. 1. Impact of COVID-2019 on Living Standards in Nigeria No access
  2. Impact of COVID-2019 on Health in Nigeria No access
  3. Impact of COVID-2019 on Education No access
4. 1. Health Responses No access
  2. Social Protection Responses No access
  3. Economic Responses No access
  4. Macroeconomic Responses and Multilateral Collaboration No access
  5. Social Cohesion and Community Resilience No access
5. 1. Recommendations for Policymakers No access
  2. Areas of Future Research No access
6. References No access
1. Democracy and Human Rights: Theoretical Discourse No access
2. Methodology No access
3. Global Tracking of Corodemocracy No access
4. 1. Descriptive Analysis No access
  2. Various Forms of Human Rights Abuses/Restrictions Occasioned by COVID-2019 Pandemic in Nigeria No access
  3. Level of Human Rights Abuses/Restrictions Occasioned by COVID-2019 Pandemic in Nigeria No access
  4. The Gender Most Affected by Human Rights Abuses/Restrictions Occasioned by COVID-2019 Pandemic in Nigeria No access
  5. Hypothesis Testing No access
5. Discussion of Findings No access
6. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
7. References No access
1. The Concept of Communication No access
2. The Role of Communication in Healthcare No access
3. Consequences of Ineffective Communication in Healthcare Delivery No access
4. 1. Sensitivity of Health Condition No access
  2. Language, Culture, and Demographics No access
  3. Balance of Power No access
  4. Mediation No access
5. Patients-Healthcare Providers’ Communication: COVID-2019 as a Special Case No access
6. Theoretical Perspectives No access
7. 1. The Diluted Presence No access
  2. The “Hostile” Presence No access
  3. Intimacy versus Professional Distance No access
  4. The Imperative of Expanded Communication Space No access
8. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
9. References No access
1. Philanthropy: A Theoretical Discussion No access
2. 1. Case Study 1: Government Palliatives, Public Distrust, and Politics of Political Philanthropy No access
  2. Case Study 2: Religious Leaders—Piety or Performance? No access
  3. Case Study 3: Corporations and CSR—Good Samaritan or Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? No access
  4. Case Study 4: Celebrities: Between Altruism and Attention Seeking No access
3. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
4. References No access
1. Methodological and Theoretical Approaches No access
2. 1. Interpretation on the Cause of COVID-2019 and Clergy in Drama over Prophecies and Healing No access
3. Response of Religion to COVID-2019 No access
4. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
5. References No access
1. General Mathematical Theory No access
2. 1. Global Coverage No access
  2. Coverage in a Developed Nation: The United States No access
  3. Coverage in a Developing Nation: Nigeria No access
  4. Factors that Underlie the Manner the News Media Have Reported the Data No access
3. Attempts at Mathematical Projections No access
4. A Box-Jenkins Monte Carlo Type Mathematical Projection No access
5. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
6. References No access
1. Coropsychology: A Hysterical Perspective No access
2. Methodological and Theoretical Approaches No access
3. The Health Belief Model No access
4. Perceptions of COVID-2019 No access
5. Communication of the Pandemic and Containment Measures No access
6. Tanzania: Calm amid a Raging Storm No access
7. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
8. References No access
1. General Linguistic Theory No access
2. Communication Misfires No access
3. Neologisms No access
4. Interpersonal Communication No access
5. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
6. References No access
1. General Economic Theory No access
2. 1. The Case of the United States No access
  2. The Case of the PRC No access
3. 1. Oil and Gas Market No access
  2. Precious Metals Market No access
4. 1. Africa No access
  2. Europe No access
5. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
6. References No access
1. 1. Media Effect Theory No access
2. Social Media and COVID-2019 Information Dissemination in Nigeria No access
3. 1. COVID-2019 Misinformation and Misconceptions in Nigeria No access
  2. Lack of Public Trust and COVID-2019 Misinformation in Nigeria No access
4. Effect of Social Media Reportage of COVID-2019 on the Nigerian Populace No access
5. 1. Advocacy and Awareness Creation No access
  2. Media Censorship No access
6. 1. Areas of Further Research No access
7. References No access
1. History: A Theoretical Discussion No access
2. Pandemics before the Outbreak of COVID-2019 No access
3. The Place of Globalization in the Spread of COVID-2019 No access
4. Responses to COVID-2019 in the Global North and South No access
5. 1. Recommendations for Policymakers and Future Research No access
6. References No access
1. Methodological Approach No access
2. Theoretical Framework No access
3. 1. Declaring a State of Emergency No access
4. 1. Mask Wearing: Misinformation and Hyperbole No access
5. 1. The United States’ Response to COVID-2019 No access
  2. China’s Response to COVID-2019 No access
  3. Lessons Learned No access
6. References No access
1. Theoretical Exploration of Exploitation No access
2. 1. Exploitation Perpetuated by Government and Government Officials No access
  2. Experiences from the Education Sector No access
  3. Wage Adjustment as Exploitation No access
  4. Insane Fare Hike amid a Pandemic No access
  5. The Cankerworm of Security Exploitation No access
  6. NCDC Officials, Culpable Exploiters No access
  7. Consumer Goods Exploitation No access
3. 1. Celebrity-“Sponsored” Giveaways as Exploitation No access
4. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
5. References No access
1. Weak State Theoretical and Conceptual Discussions No access
2. Sierra Leone and the Milieu of COVID-2019 Emergence No access
3. Overview of the State of Health Infrastructure in Sierra Leone No access
4. Sierra Leone and the Existential Social Structural Inequality No access
5. Institutionalized Structural Violence in Periods of COVID-2019 Lockdown No access
6. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
7. References No access
1. Theoretical Discussion No access
2. The COVID-2019 Racism and African Americans No access
3. COVID-2019 and Racism toward Asian Americans No access
4. COVID-2019 and Racism in the Latino American Community No access
5. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
6. References No access
1. The New Normal No access
2. Conceptual Clarification of Social Adaptation No access
3. 1. Call to Worship No access
  2. Learning in the Air No access
4. 1. New Venue, Same Music No access
  2. Broadcast Media Outputs No access
5. 1. No Usual Business No access
  2. Ride Space for Less No access
6. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
7. References No access
1. Theoretical Framework No access
2. 1. The Economic and Trade Threat Narrative No access
  2. The Ideological and Political Threat Narrative No access
  3. The Military and Security Narrative No access
  4. The Geopolitical Narrative No access
3. 1. The Outbreak in China: From December 1, 2019, to March 10, 2020 No access
  2. COVID-2019 Is Declared a Pandemic: The Period of March 11, 2020, to May 30, 2020 No access
4. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
5. References No access
1. 1. The Higher Education System in Zimbabwe No access
  2. Value of Information in the Fight against COVID-2019 Pandemic and Infodemic No access
2. Theoretical Framework No access
3. 1. Polytechnics and Colleges’ Responses to the COVID-2019 Pandemic in Zimbabwe No access
4. Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations No access
5. References No access
1. Corolockdown: An Outcome of a Crisis of False Modernism and a Securitized Medico-political Convergence No access
2. Corolockdown: The Transformation of People into an Existential Threat to Power No access
3. 1. The Instrumentalization of George Orwell’s Animal Farm in the Validation of Capitulatory Lockdown Privileges and How the Subalterns Are Resisting No access
  2. The Instrumentalization of Knowledge to Invalidate Oppositional Attitudes toward Corolockdown No access
4. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
5. References No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 553 - 554
Index No access Pages 555 - 558
About the Contributors No access Pages 559 - 566