This book brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic to record their visceral experiences and reflections.

Introduction Touch 1. My Tango Life Cancelled 2. Poems Nabina Das 3. Refugee Women from Different Continents Dance in a Circle 4. Poems 5. Kartik's Last Words Home and the World 6. Plethora of Emotions Engulf the Everyday Life 7. Post-Covid-19 Urbanscape: Reimagining Housing as Infrastructure of Care 8. Quarantined for Life 9. Calling on Australians of Conscience 10. Femicide and Violence against Women in Mexico Governance 11. Domestic Violence during the Covid-19 lockdown: Interventions by Special Cell for Women located at Police Stations 12. Re-imagining Governance in Post-Covid-19 Bihar 13. Covid-19 Stories: Artwork & Commentary 14. Surveillance to Sousveillance: Watching the Watchers 15. Untitled Artwork Religion and Godlessness 16. Handling the Pandemic: How Does a Neoliberal State 'Manage' the Deeper Malaise? 17. No Idea of God: Epiphanies and Exaltations Amidst a Pandemic Creative Communications 18. Thoughts from the North 19. Just Wafting by... 20. Re-imagining indigenous knowledge and practices in a post COVID-19 Social Work in Uganda 21. The Earth and Covid-19 Questioning the 'Normal' and the Normative 22. To Do is To Be? 23. The Myth of Majority: Reimagining Minorities 24. Covid-19 and the intersectional consequences for women with disabilities: Experiences from Sri Lanka Education 25. The Private-Liberal Arts University and the Pandemic: Some Reflections 26. Re-imagining Education in the post-Covid World Of Trauma and Loss 27. Ground Zero After Ground Zero 28. Narrating the Moment of Transmission Creative Re-imaginings 29. Shakespeare and Kafka: Telling Stories in Times of Uncertainty 30. Socialism, Language and Values for a Post-Corona World 31. Covid-19 and Its Impacts: A Dialogue on Intersectional Vulnerabilities and Resistances 32. Beyond Crisis: Building Child-friendly Cities as Bird-friendly Spaces