Caterina Mazzilli Cities have what geographer Doreen Massey (1991) defines as “a character of their own”: a set of physical and [...]
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James Trafford As Britain prepared for lockdown amidst a discourse underpinned by militarised nationalism, we witnessed calls for hugely expanded police [...]
Read moreTime to end the silence – racism in prisons during COVID-19
Raheel Mohammed In ‘normal times’, the state sanctioned racism that exists in prisons has meant black and brown people’s basic rights [...]
Read moreCoronavirus and Class Struggle, Education and Beyond: A Call to Action
Carli Rowell Much has been written about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic upon various facets of everyday social life [...]
Read moreIn the time of Covid – ‘April is the cruellest month’
David Clark TS Eliot’s chilling start to The Waste Land has deep resonance in the time of COVID-19. We seem to [...]
Read moreThe global city and its underside: COVID-19 in Moscow
Anni Kangas and Zarnigor Omonillaeva About one thousand Central Asian citizens were stranded at Moscow’s international airports, in mid-March, as states [...]
Read moreWho Cares? COVID-19 and young carers
Matt Woodhead ‘Don’t stay hidden, you don’t have to do it alone’ There are an estimated 700,000 young people in the UK [...]
Read moreWas a mobilized society key to China’s coronavirus response?
Sophia Woodman International media coverage of China’s coronavirus lockdown has frequently characterized its effectiveness in combatting the spread of the disease [...]
Read moreDebt and more debt: The cost of the response to Covid-19 in Argentina
Matt Barlow In Argentina, the economic and social lockdown as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic was implemented with speed and [...]
Read more‘Clap for Carers’: The Limits of Gratitude and Sustaining Emotional Support for Healthcare Workers
Stephanie Parsons Healthcare roles, especially nursing, have long been established as requiring extensive amounts of emotion work. This type of work [...]
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