David Waltner-Toews, Annibale Biggeri, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio Funtowicz, Mario Giampietro, Martin O'Connor, Jerome R. Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli, and Jeroen [...]
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The Covid-19-Induced Crisis and Three Inversions of Neoliberalism
Roderick Condon The host on which the parasite feeds has contracted a virus. The parasite must attack the virus to preserve [...]
Read moreStudent migration during a global health pandemic
Rebecca Ye The recent spread of COVID-19 and its effects on student mobility captures the complexities of an increasingly transnational field [...]
Read moreCoronavirus-poverty, precarious work and the need for a universal basic income
Brian McDonough We are only at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, yet signs of the economic consequences to this global [...]
Read moreCAPITALISM IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE COVID19 ISOLATION ROOM
Nick J Fox The media coverage of the Covid19 outbreak has addressed in detail the biological and epidemiological aspects of [...]
Read moreCovid19, new motherhood and the digital pivot
Ranjana Das Over the last couple of years, I have researched the role of communication technologies in the context of mental [...]
Read moreDiary of a cough: meaning matters
Hannah Bradby I’ve had a cough for all of the year 2020. It started on January 1st, after sharing Christmas meals [...]
Read moreUK Universities and Covid-19: Time for Cooperation, not Competition
John Holmwood The Government’s policy for higher education in England (and to a lesser extent in the other devolved jurisdictions in [...]
Read moreCovid-19, “European Science” and the Plague
I am writing this post from my room in South London, where I am currently in self-isolation. I have to [...]
Read more‘Herd immunity and let the old people die’ – Boris Johnson’s callous policy and the idea of genocide
Martin Shaw On 17 March, when the extent of the British government's failure to protect the population from the coronavirus had [...]
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