Julija Sardelić The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly transformed the social landscape we live in, either as citizens or as migrants. Political leaders from across the spectrum have been introducing travel and border restrictions as one of the most effective ways to [...]

Youyenn Teo Over the past year, and up until I had to suspend fieldwork due to the COVID-19 crisis, I have been interviewing people about their experiences with balancing waged work and raising children. I have spoken with both women and [...]

Michaela Benson Since 23rd March 2020, the UK has been in lockdown; international mobility almost entirely restricted, everyday mobilities limited and (self-)monitored. My lockdown narrative presents me as a ‘Good Citizen’, fulfilling with relative ease the enhanced obligations that underpin [...]

Lise Widding and Lena Nare Beata, a Polish domestic worker who has lived in Italy for more than 20 years, told an interviewer from Internazionale.it that the old couple she cared for, died of the Covid-19 virus and left her without [...]

Harshad Keval Despite the narrative of crisis and chaos that permeates both news media reporting and the everyday experience of life in ‘lockdown’, there are emerging patterns that need thinking about. Many observers have already pointed to the massive inequalities that [...]

Rosa Morris, Michael Orton and Kate Summers Mark Simpson's cogent Discover Society blog highlighted limitations in the government's social security response to Covid-19, also begging the question of what ideas might offer a better way forward? The current crisis has both [...]

Rageshri Dhairyawan and Darren Chetty Racism has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic from its early stages with reports of East Asian people experiencing racist attacks on the streets of Britain. In the United States (US) President Trump has repeatedly chosen to refer [...]

William Davies The social and economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge of voluntary civic activity, and calls for even more. Mutual aid groups have sprung up around the country, supported by WhatsApp and Facebook groups, [...]

Aisha Rahim “Together you are more united and feel a lot more powerful than if you were on own.  This is what makes you stronger in situations like these. We are so blessed to have them (parents) with us when so [...]

Julia McClure Will the global crisis of the coronavirus pandemic lead to protests that will cause the end of capitalism, leading to the reduction of inequality and the emergence of a fairer society? Or will the global crisis be an opportunity [...]

Steve Hinchliffe and John Law We are used to obscurely derived numbers dominating daily news. The FTSE, Dow Jones, bank lending rates, GDP, national debt – they creep into everyday conversation even if most of us have little idea about how [...]

Ompha Malima and Sayan Dey The social, cultural, political and economic marginalization of specific classes by agents of the governing order has become a much normalized phenomena in contemporary India. The invasion of Covid-19 in India has opened a multidimensional gateway [...]

Erica Borgstrom The news of deaths related to Covid-19 both in the UK and globally is our current daily reality. You may even be reading them with your morning coffee and afternoon tea. This article is one of them. The current [...]

Aerin Lai The BBC and other mainstream news outlets have reported the accompanied rise in racial violence towards Chinese (or anyone who looks remotely Chinese) in the UK. Just like the Spanish flu, the association of disease with a particular ethnic [...]

Simon J. Williams and Rob Meadows All our lives all are affected by the coronavirus crisis one way or another, whether we get it or not. Each day brings news of newly confirmed cases, the latest death tolls, the heroic [...]

Paola Rebughini While we are confined at home, out of the window we can observe nature living its own life without us. While the overdose of our geographical mobility is frozen, we envy the freedom of non-human living beings. In a [...]

Ai Yu In the following I provide a socio-psychological account of two sensemaking discourses about COVID-19 in China and in the UK and to show where we “fell into a pit”, and where we might expect “a gain in the wit” [...]

Birgit Poopuu, Elisabeth Schweiger and Elena Simon Why did the protective masks run out in two months? But rockets and bombs that kill Syrians did not run out in 9 years? Stop making what kills people. Make what helps them to [...]

Emma Craddock We are living in what has been described as ‘humanity’s darkest hour’ by the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The Bank of England base rate, which determines the interest rates of lending and is often used as [...]

Joe Whelan For a virus which was only being whispered about a few short months ago, COV, SARS 2, COVID 19, Corona Virus is now firmly enmeshed in the collective imagination. As a result, changes have happened, and are continuing to [...]