Tagged: environment

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 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 […]

By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are rapidly changing. Scientific research, clinical treatments, policy/politics, and wider social representations of this completely new disease are already being framed in terms of several diseases we already know, including viral […]