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
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
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?
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
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
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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FOCUS: Interrogating a ‘Woman’s Curse’ – What Endometriosis Tells Us About Politics and Society
Tendayi Bloom, Charlotte Galpin and Annalise Weckesser The symptoms associated with endometriosis, particularly excessively painful and/or heavy periods, are often dismissed [...]
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VIEWPOINT: If Representations of Endometriosis Are Not Intersectional, They are Damaging and Inaccurate
Nikita Aashi Chadha Representations of endometriosis within the media, society and even decision-making rooms within Parliament, unsettles me as a working [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Bleeding Hell – My personal, professional, artistic and academic relationship with endometriosis
Amy Bonsall In her book, 'Living a Feminist Life,' Sara Ahmed says ‘ feminist movement is built from many moments of [...]
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Policy and Politics: Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions?
Karin Ingold, Frédéric Varone, Marlene Kammerer, Florence Metz, Lorenz Kammermann, and Chantal Strotz This section of Discover Society is provided in [...]
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