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The Pandemic’s Undeserving and Disposable: Exposing Entangled Systems of Power in Cache Valley (USA)

The Pandemic’s Undeserving and Disposable: Exposing Entangled Systems of Power in Cache Valley (USA)

  • By discoversociety
  • June 18, 2020

Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz On June 3, Logan, a town in Cache Valley approximately one hour north of Salt Lake City [...]

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Architectures and Designs for a Post-Antibiotic / Post-Covid-19 world

Architectures and Designs for a Post-Antibiotic / Post-Covid-19 world

  • By discoversociety
  • June 16, 2020

Nik Brown It hardly needs pointing out that Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the world around us. This is a pandemic visibly [...]

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Tallies and tolls: what counting the dead can tell us about death and dying amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

Tallies and tolls: what counting the dead can tell us about death and dying amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

  • By discoversociety
  • June 09, 2020

Emma Kirby, Erica Borgstrom and John I MacArtney For the past few months, daily headlines and websites have tracked the [...]

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Bottom-up solutions for early socio-economic recovery in informal economies after COVID-19

Bottom-up solutions for early socio-economic recovery in informal economies after COVID-19

  • By discoversociety
  • June 09, 2020

Matías Acosta and Matías Nestore The far-reaching economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis has been highlighted in the past few weeks. The [...]

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Pandemics and a renewed social contract: the hope of a ‘new normal’ for a future beyond lockdown

Pandemics and a renewed social contract: the hope of a ‘new normal’ for a future beyond lockdown

  • By discoversociety
  • June 08, 2020

Maru Mormina As I write this, the world is still engulfed in the Covid-19 outbreak, most of us live under some [...]

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Philanthrocapitalism vs. the public in Covid-19 times

Philanthrocapitalism vs. the public in Covid-19 times

  • By discoversociety
  • June 08, 2020

Isabelle Darmon A pandemic, perhaps more than any other disaster, is a philanthrocapitalist’s hunting ground. Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, [...]

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The changing role of social infrastructure in the response to covid-19

The changing role of social infrastructure in the response to covid-19

  • By discoversociety
  • June 04, 2020

Sophie Yarker Critical infrastructure only becomes visible in its absence. We are only aware of power supplies when there is a [...]

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Pandemic solidarities: from despair to where?

Pandemic solidarities: from despair to where?

  • By discoversociety
  • June 04, 2020

Andrew Wallace Covid-19 has scrambled all our worlds and the meshing of private lives with public troubles has never been clearer. [...]

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Imagining Collectives: A missive on the massive

Imagining Collectives: A missive on the massive

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2020

AbdouMaliq Simone In Jamaican patois, “massive” has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity [...]

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Post-pandemic scenarios: do open borders to (better) govern migration

Post-pandemic scenarios: do open borders to (better) govern migration

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2020

Giacomo Orsini The COVID-19 pandemic should have been a dream for anti-migrant politicians – what they had been unable to realize [...]

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