Exploring Society with COVID-19
Exploring Society with COVID-19
By Carolyn Petersen Health and wellbeing benefits of walking on the South West Coast Path valued at over £75 million per year Latest research has calculated health and wellbeing benefits of over £75 million for people walking Britain’s longest National Trail. The figures were produced as part of a report published that assesses the health […]
By Tridibesh Dey Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have called ‘binding crises’: ‘events with the clarity and immediacy of a terrifying threat’ (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless – though unevenly. Binding crises of the past (like the 1842 Great Fire of Hamburg, […]
By Catherine Caine The UK is currently facing unprecedented times as Covid-19 has forced the country into lockdown. However, the recent development consent application from EDF Energy for the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station provides an opportunity for the planning sector to begin to return to normal. This opinion considers whether it is possible to achieve full public […]
“In this blog post, we want to zoom in on the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions have had on forests and populations at different altitudinal gradients in the eastern Andean forest of Colombia. We will in this text concentrate on two areas along with the central-eastern Andes mountain range, areas where […]
The time of COVID-19 represents a distinct, but currently under-defined and under-theorised, temporal moment. Using semiotic methods, this paper examines how the mechanical actions of the virus, through becoming social, create a new viral time, heralding an already-arrived new historical epoch. This epoch, which is simultaneously both homogenous and undifferentiated at one tempo, and supercharged […]
By Sabina Leonelli with Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Thomas Cousin and Michelle Pentecost ‘Struggles for a more just, fair, inclusive, or caring politics in the time of Covid-19, need to be grounded in the everyday work of building institutions, supporting the vulnerable amongst us, and cultivating a deeper ethic of mutuality.’ What have been the epidemiological and […]
By John Dupré Viruses are usually portrayed as stable and distinct individuals that do not fit the more integrated and collaborative picture of nature implied by symbiosis. In this paper (by John Dupré and Stephan Guttinger) we will contest this view. This paper first discusses recent findings in virology that show that viruses can be […]
By Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff In the UK, air pollution has been repeatedly invoked in debate around the COVID-19 pandemic: during a time of suddenly reduced mobility, heavily polluted city air has cleared, making visible a previously invisible problem; links are also being drawn between exposure to air pollution, inequality and poor outcomes from […]
By Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael The promotion of single-use plastic in healthcare is about reducing the chances of cross-infection; however a similar dynamic can now be found in the sphere of domestic retail consumption and waste disposal as the pandemic unfolds. How should we think about responsibility, consumption and plastic-use in the centre of a […]