Mark Simpson The Chancellor of the Exchequer describes the UK Government’s package of support for individuals, businesses and the economy, unveiled [...]
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Category "2020"
Covid-19 and the new geography of the everyday world
Lisa Arai The emergence of the novel coronavirus strain, Covid-19, has been understood primarily as a medical and public health phenomenon, [...]
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‘Take Care – No But Really’: Gender, Labour, and Care in Times of Crisis
Asiya Islam A message with email signoffs adapted for use during the coronavirus pandemic has been doing the rounds, one of [...]
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Locked out under Coronavirus lockdown – continuing exclusion of India’s migrant workforce
Nabeela Ahmed and Priya Deshingkar India announced a national lockdown for 21 days to control the spread of Covid-19 in the [...]
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“New times”. How do we experience time in a global epidemic?
Jan Grzymski The world has entered a time of global epidemic. Albert Camus once wrote that ‘there have been as many [...]
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Neoliberalism under Threat: Coronavirus and the Return of the Social
Neil Vallelly Neoliberalism is under threat. This much is clear by the huge government interventions in national economies across the globe [...]
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The “Good” Coronavirus Citizen, The “Covidiot”, and the Privilege of #StayAtHome
Benjamin Weil As the coronavirus pandemic continues to restructure our day-to-day lives, many have turned to the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic in [...]
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FOCUS: Who cares? Urban youth and the right to the city
Agata Lisiak and Elena Vacchelli Greta Thunberg may be the world’s most recognisable teenager. Over the past couple of years the [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Queering urban justice – From transitional objects to intergenerational care
Image Credit: A still from the short film Marvellous Grounds (directed by Min Sook Lee, featuring ILL NANA/DiverCity Dance Company). Jin [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Walking While Cut in Half
Karam Alhamad Walking instructions (1) I am not a "refugee" in Berlin. I have left my refugee ID card in Istanbul, that [...]
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