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The Social Determinants of Covid 19 and BAME disproportionality

The Social Determinants of Covid 19 and BAME disproportionality

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  • April 30, 2020

Nasar Meer, Kaveri Qureshi, Ben Kasstan and Sarah Hill In April 2020, NHS England and Public Health England launched an inquiry [...]

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Driving home  ‘single-use’: plastic politics in the times of the COVID-19

Driving home  ‘single-use’: plastic politics in the times of the COVID-19

  • By discoversociety
  • April 30, 2020

Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael “As coronavirus bears down on society, single use plastic steps up in an unprecedented way”, argued [...]

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It’s time to implement a basic income floor

It’s time to implement a basic income floor

  • By discoversociety
  • April 30, 2020

Stewart Lansley With livelihoods shattered and household incomes heading for unprecedented falls, attention needs to turn towards the vital question of [...]

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Parks in a pandemic: a glimpse into the future?

Parks in a pandemic: a glimpse into the future?

  • By discoversociety
  • April 29, 2020

Anna Barker and Andrew Smith One of the more surprising aspects of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK has been the [...]

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Covid-19: asymptomatic infection and the question of face masks for how we live this pandemic

Covid-19: asymptomatic infection and the question of face masks for how we live this pandemic

  • By discoversociety
  • April 29, 2020

Marsha Rosengarten, Kari Lancaster, and Tim Rhodes Unlike any other potentially deadly viral infection, Covid-19 has required a contraction of living on [...]

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Are there more COVID-19 deaths than expected in BAME communities in England – what does the data say?

Are there more COVID-19 deaths than expected in BAME communities in England – what does the data say?

  • By discoversociety
  • April 29, 2020

Miqdad Asaria There is increasing concern that people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities are being disproportionately impacted by [...]

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The invisible Corona crisis

The invisible Corona crisis

  • By discoversociety
  • April 29, 2020

Mattias De Backer To the Italian sociologist Andrea Mubi Brighenti we owe the insight that reciprocal visibility, or “inter-visibility”, is one [...]

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The Sociology of Sport, Risk and Pandemics

The Sociology of Sport, Risk and Pandemics

  • By discoversociety
  • April 29, 2020

Katie Liston Have you wondered over this period of social distancing and ‘lockdown’ why some groups appear to comply with [...]

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Academic responsibility after Covid-19, a response from the US

Academic responsibility after Covid-19, a response from the US

  • By discoversociety
  • April 28, 2020

Lester K. Spence Even before the neoliberal turn, the high-tier US university has served as a hub for labor, as a [...]

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Living on the edge: spatial exclusion rendered visible by the COVID-19 pandemic

Living on the edge: spatial exclusion rendered visible by the COVID-19 pandemic

  • By discoversociety
  • April 28, 2020

Alice Butler-Warke and Caroline Hood Urban space is where social divisions, inequality and exclusion are rendered visible as certain bodies and [...]

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