Henrice Altink, Sara de Jong and Jean Grugel On 16 June 2020 Boris Johnson announced the immediate preparation for the merger [...]
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The Pandemic’s Undeserving and Disposable: Exposing Entangled Systems of Power in Cache Valley (USA)
Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz On June 3, Logan, a town in Cache Valley approximately one hour north of Salt Lake City [...]
Read moreArchitectures and Designs for a Post-Antibiotic / Post-Covid-19 world
Nik Brown It hardly needs pointing out that Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the world around us. This is a pandemic visibly [...]
Read moreTallies and tolls: what counting the dead can tell us about death and dying amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Emma Kirby, Erica Borgstrom and John I MacArtney For the past few months, daily headlines and websites have tracked the [...]
Read moreBottom-up solutions for early socio-economic recovery in informal economies after COVID-19
Matías Acosta and Matías Nestore The far-reaching economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis has been highlighted in the past few weeks. The [...]
Read morePandemics and a renewed social contract: the hope of a ‘new normal’ for a future beyond lockdown
Maru Mormina As I write this, the world is still engulfed in the Covid-19 outbreak, most of us live under some [...]
Read morePhilanthrocapitalism 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, [...]
Read moreThe 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 [...]
Read morePandemic 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. [...]
Read moreImagining 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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