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Eva Illouz This article was first published in Le Nouvel Observateur and Sueddeutsche Zeitung 23/03/2020 and in Haartz ‘Weekend’ 02/04/2020 In Lars [...]

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti In a recent interview, the virologist Ilaria Capua argued that epidemics are social rather than merely biological [...]

James Flexner I am an archaeologist who studies the long-term histories of small island societies in the Pacific region, with most [...]

Aidan O’Sullivan On the 26th of March and again on the 2nd of April across the nation, millions in the UK [...]

Mark Carrigan In common with over a third of the world’s population, I have spent the last week confined to my [...]

En-Chieh Chao I call this pandemic a plague but not COVID-19 or any other names that aims to politicize it or [...]

Achala Gupta and Katie Chadd Amidst the rapidly growing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many hidden realities of our everyday lives [...]

Lisa Tilley In recent weeks, the critical response to right-wing readings of desirable action or inaction in the context of COVID-19 [...]

Chris Griffin Self-isolation and physical distancing have quickly generated new norms of social responsibility. Public discourse is increasingly dominated by morally-loaded [...]

Nirmal Maraj and Dylan Kerrigan “Racial capitalism” is a brutal socio-economic system. Regionally across the small islands nations and countries of [...]