Category: Care and Communities
By Michael Schillmeier With COVID-19 we experience the dramatic effects of a cosmopolitical event by which a non-human actor politicizes, i.e. unbuttons the normalcy of…
By Catherine Leyshon and Jen Siggs Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE) is a project operating in eight rural communities – two each…
By Mark Jackson As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with little sign of abating, it is clear that measures to reduce transmission come with very high…
For many of us, our experience of the COVID-19 crisis has been largely defined by experiences of absence — including the absence of everyday routines…
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…
In this paper we take up three terms – containment, delay, mitigation – that have been used by the UK Government to describe their phased…
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…
By Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose During the COVID-19 crisis, the use of shame has been prominent and we discuss how this has impacted on…
By Gemma Lucas, Jennifer Lea, Chloe Asker Through the use of vignettes, this chapter draws on our personal, auto-ethnographic and everyday experiences to attend to…
By Felicity Thomas The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently warned of an ‘unsustainable global care crisis’, indicating that by 2030, the number of people needing…
By Anne Barlow New COVID-19 measures restricting our freedom to go out are bound to put couple relationships under pressure, even when family members are…
By Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing Anne Barlow and Jan Ewing have been invited by the Ministry of Justice to work with them and a range…
By Susan Molyneux-Hodgson During lock-down, our team has been active and reflected on the lessons from radiation protection, emergencies in Chernobyl and Fukushima and drawn…
By Laura Salisbury Waiting and Care in Pandemic Times’ is a collection of papers about time and care, written under conditions of lockdown in the…
By Louise Lawrence Louise Lawrence has been working on a research project entitled, “Compassionate Campuses: Refiguring Universities in an Age of Neoliberalism,” focusing on institutional…
By João Florêncio Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe, triggering a variety of national public health responses throughout the continent, several theorists and philosophers…
By Christopher Southgate The project ‘Tragedies and Christian Congregations’, directed by Professor Chris Southgate in the Department of Theology and Religion, has been exploring how…
By Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque Amid the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom, we formulated specific hypotheses and questions that were pre-registered in AsPredicted (#38962)…
By Robin Durie and Katrina Wyatt The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt most acutely in our most disadvantaged communities. Recognition of this…