Covid 19 and the sociology of risk and uncertainty : studies of social phenomena and social theory across 6 continents Section 1 Theorizing 1. Risk in a Post Truth Society Joost Van Loon 2. The pandemic COVID19 and decision making under uncertainty: The Norwegian government’s handling of what is said and suppressed Hafting Tore 3. The Stock Market Universal Intermediary Power and State Support in the Face of COVID 19 Dean Curran Part 2. Inequalities and Rights 4. COVID 19 in the Sahel : A multidisciplinary risk analysis Bencherif Adib 5. Social health and environmental impacts of compulsory isolation in Buenos Aires’ settlements Tobías Melina and Soledad Fernández Bouzo 6. On the justifiability of corona lockdown measures in Indias context Kritika Maheshwari Section 3 Governing COVID 19 7. A tsunami of risk and uncertainty in slow motion Magdalena Gil & Eduardo A. Undurraga 8. Risk and shame in the English lockdown under Covid 19 Jo Warner Section 5 Trust and Distrust 9. Trust lockdowns and risk assessment: opinions and behavior across the world Minna Lundgren 10. Social distancing isolation and lockdown: trust considerations during COVID 19 in Australia Paul Ward Section 6 Public Discourse 11. COVID 19 in Argentina: Risks Media and Fears in Pandemic Times Brenda Focas 12. Discourses around telework in the Brazilian banking sector: COVID 19 shifting framings of vulnerability and risk Fernanda Sousa Duarte Section 7 Everyday Life 13. Biographies of preparedness: from everyday life to Covid 19 pandemic Kvarnlöf Linda 14.The Ethics of Risk Research in the time of COVID 19: Privileging the Wellbeing of Girls and Women in the Context of Gender Based Violence in Rural South Africa Relebohile Moletsane & Claudia Mitchell 15. Risk Mourning Politics: The Loneliness of COVID 19 Deaths in Iran Bayatrizi Zohreh & Reza Taslimi Tehrani Section 8 Risk and Environment COVID 19 and the Environment Rolf Lidskog & Adam Standring. . This book provides a global perspective on COVID 19 taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Contributions are rooted in critical social science studies of risk and uncertainty and characterized by theoretical approaches such as cultural theory risk society theory governmentality perspectives and many important insights from ‘southern’ theories. Some of the chapters in the book have a more theoretical conceptual emphasis while others are more empirically oriented – but all chapters engage in an insightful dialogue between the theoretical and the empirical in order to develop a rich diverse and textured picture of the new challenge the world is facing and responding to. Addressing multiple levels of responses to the coronavirus as understood in terms of institutional and governance policies media communication and interpretation and the sense making and actions of individual citizens in their everyday lives the book brings together a diverse range of studies from across 6 continents. These chapters are connected by a common emphasis on applying critical theoretical approaches which help make sense of and critique the responses of states organisations and individuals to the social phenomena emerging amid the Corona pandemic.