Deborah Lupton: The COVID-19 Crisis in Australia: Local and Global Contexts

In her presentation on the 10th of November 2021, Deborah Lupton
discusses how Australians experienced the COVID-19 crisis, from its
first reporting to the present, where the largest states of New
South Wales and Victoria, together with the Australian Capital
Territory, are slowly emerging from extended strict lockdowns due
to the Delta variant. She also introduces her new book COVID
Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis (forthcoming from
Routledge in April 2022), which provides a global perspective on
the pandemic. Deborah Lupton is a SHARP Professor in the
Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research
Centre and Leader of the Vitalities Lab at the University of New
South Wales Sydney (UNSW).