Exploring Society with COVID-19
Exploring Society with COVID-19
Professor Luna Dolezal, Dr Fred Cooper and Dr Arthur Rose have received a UKRI-AHRC COVID Rapid Response Grant (AH/V013483/1) for a project called “Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19”. This project will identify and investigate, through philosophical, cultural studies and historical analyses, the sites and circumstances of shame, shaming, stigma and discrimination during the first 12 […]
By Thibaud Deruelle Europe is among the regions most affected by COVID-19: the continent was designated in March 2020 as the new epicenter of the pandemic and Europe’s recovery strategy to the COVID-19 crisis seems to be threatened by a lack of solidarity. This presentation discusses how the EU governance system has – so far […]
Despite the first case of the novel coronavirus only being reported to the WHO at the end of December 2019, humanities and social science scholars have been quick to subject local, national and international responses to COVID-19 to critique. Through television and radio, blogs, social media and other outlets, historians in particular have situated the […]
By Georgia Smith Media coverage has repeatedly stressed that the Coronavirus holds the greatest threat for older individuals. Simultaneously, such coverage has exacerbated stereotypes of the oldest-old, portraying them as passive and vulnerable victims of the virus; blameless, yet burdensome. In contrast, ‘Baby Boomers’ or ‘Boomers’ have been accused of holding cavalier attitudes and berated for […]
By Luna Dolezal Political and media messages about the COVID-19 crisis are saturated with the language of wartime, and shaded by an implicit or explicit nostalgia for the Second World War “blitz spirit.” In this article, we discuss how the war metaphor gives rise to a sacrificial logic that manifests through the various forms of […]
By Des Fitzgerald “Stay at home” has become the iconic governmental injunction of the pandemic, often re-enforced by images of tearful health workers, circulated on social media, telling people to “stay the f***k* at home.” But what are the risks of this forceful instruction? What are we doing, as social and political actors, when we […]
By Thibaud Deruelle Europe is among the most affected regions in the world by the spread of COVID-19 and the continent’s recovery strategy to the crisis seems to be threatened by a lack of solidarity. This paper analyses how the European Union (EU) governance system has – so far – conditioned the construction of a […]
By Thibaud Deruelle This blog post offers an overview of the way health threats are governed in the European Union. It will be of particular interest to those who seek to understand why public health coordination in Europe has been limited throughout the crisis. Further reading: Framing Public Health Expectations in the EU
By Ting Guo This project (currently pursuing funding) investigates the translation, reception and use of personal narratives in the public discussion of COVID-19 in the UK. Since the early stages of the pandemic, personal narratives about the disease in languages such as Chinese and Italian have been translated and disseminated through UK mainstream and citizen […]