Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Ben Bridges, Ross Brillhart, and Diane E. Goldstein
Section I: The Vernacular to the Rescue: Community, Creativity, and Coping with COVID-19
1. Rainbows, Snakes, and Scarecrows: Creative Vernacular Interventions in Response to COVID-19—A View from the United Kingdom | Andrew Robinson
2. Silver Linings: Chronicling Cultural Sustainability at the GeographicCenter of North America | Troyd Geist, Pieper Bloomquist, and James I. Deutsch
3. Kneading Comfort, Community, Craftsmanship: Home Baking in the Coroniverse | Lucy M. Long and Theresa A. Vaughan
Section II: The Failure of Experts and the Rise of Vernacular Expertise
4. Beyond the Deliberate Infector: Emergent Categories of Infector Narratives during COVID-19 | Sheila Bock
5. Fake Grannies, Extra Doses, and the One Hundred: COVID-19 Vaccine Hunting and Accessibility | Andrea Kitta
6. Beyond Bat-Eating: Digital Discourses of Zoonotic Disease in the COVID-19 Era | Julianne Graper
Section III : When Vernaculars Meet
7. From Risk Semantics to Embodied Practice | Anne Eriksen and Kyrre Kverndokk
8. Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: The Creation of Virtual Space, Culture, and Community during the Pandemic through Digitized Platforms | Kinsey Brooke
9. Virtual Tarantella Folk Music and Dances: Local Resilience, Global Spectacle, and Digital Communities | Incoronata Inserra
Index
About the Authors