En-Chieh Chao I call this pandemic a plague but not COVID-19 or any other names that aims to politicize it or [...]
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Experiencing the ‘new normal’: sociology of (Covid-19) pandemic from a disability perspective
Achala Gupta and Katie Chadd Amidst the rapidly growing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many hidden realities of our everyday lives [...]
Read moreSaying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Eugenics and the ‘Aging Population’ in Conservative Pandemic Governance
Lisa Tilley In recent weeks, the critical response to right-wing readings of desirable action or inaction in the context of COVID-19 [...]
Read moreCovid disobedience and the autoimmune self-destruction of liberal individualism
Chris Griffin Self-isolation and physical distancing have quickly generated new norms of social responsibility. Public discourse is increasingly dominated by morally-loaded [...]
Read moreCovid-19 and the impact of Racial Capitalism in the Caribbean
Nirmal Maraj and Dylan Kerrigan “Racial capitalism” is a brutal socio-economic system. Regionally across the small islands nations and countries of [...]
Read moreCovid-19 in Bolivia fuels political crisis
Olivia Arigho-Stiles Covid-19 has arrived in Bolivia, one of Latin America’s poorest countries, exacerbating a deepening political crisis and structural economic [...]
Read moreCOVID19: Expertise, transparency and the problem of trust
Reiner Grundmann In an attempt to control the effects of the epidemic in the UK, the government has embarked on a [...]
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Nick Stevenson Recently I have been writing a historical article about George Orwell. While doing so I have come across a [...]
Read moreResponding to Covid-19, a failure of governance?
John Holmwood The UK Government’s response to Covid-19 has elicited bafflement on the part of many commentators. It is now widely [...]
Read moreCorona, East and West: Has Western-centrism mitigated against our well-being in the UK?
Ipek Demir It is no longer a secret. The West, on the whole, has underestimated the coronavirus – covid-19. It is [...]
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