Exploring Society with COVID-19
Exploring Society with COVID-19
By Fred Cooper A guest post in the blog series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19‘ from historian Fred Cooper, who offers a path through some contexts for and responses to the current crisis. https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/
By Charlotte Jones In collaboration with workers, trade unions and local campaigns, this project responds to rapidly changing circumstances in the hospitality sector since the UK government began to ease the national lockdown in July 2020. Due to concerns about the COVID-19 transmission risks involved in visiting public venues, the safe preparation and maintenance of these […]
By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones In this article Charlotte Jones and Fred Cooper argue that Covid-19 seems to be creating the conditions for new extremes of detachment and isolation amongst students. Covid-19 has amplified student loneliness and distress
By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones A project on loneliness and mental health in collaboration with student co-researchers, most recently in the charged and altered context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Together researchers and students developed a creative journaling project for the sharing of experiences and artistic responses to the lockdown. https://wcceh.org/projects/beacon-loneliness-and-community/
By Olly Clabburn, Fred Cooper, and Charlotte Jones lockdownblues.co.uk A website and virtual scrapbook for the sharing of experiences and observations on loneliness and isolation before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. The project focuses on the South West of England, but contributions are also welcome from further afield.
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 Neville Morley As the world endures a pandemic, the War on the Rocks podcast looks to a plague of the past: that which struck Athens early in the Peloponnesian War. Where did the plague come from? How did it affect the war? How did it change Athenian society? We explore these questions and more […]
By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the identity of the disease is unknown) in Athens in 430 BCE. Thucydides’ description influenced many subsequent accounts; it is most interesting for his exploration of social and psychological responses to […]
By Pascale Aebischer This project aims to provide a roadmap for local and regional companies that will enable them to bring furloughed staff back onto their payroll and develop new ways of working, in terms of administration and creative output, that are less building-dependent and that enable flexible modes of working to mitigate the impacts […]
By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction rituals that are increasingly dominated by fear and mistrust. In this article, I explore some of the experiential consequences of social distancing, considering face-to-face interaction and interactions mediated by telepresence […]