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China and the United States – An Emerging Cold War?
Introduction In recent weeks the Covid-19 crisis has significantly increased the tension between the US and China. The trade war of the past three years has damaged both economies. And… | Read on »
“Proper to Throw it Out”: The Bristol Electors, Edmund Burke and the Relocation of a Statue of Edward Colston to the Bottom of the River Frome
Until this Sunday two statues stood in Bristol’s historic Centre. Both statues were cast at the end of the nineteenth century, both of single-term MPs for the city: you might… | Read on »
Canada, COVID, and Police Brutality: The Experience of the Black Community
Protests are sweeping across the United Sates due to the public murder of African American George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Cities have risen up in response. The federal government and… | Read on »
The COVID-19 Exposure
As published in ZNet, June 6, 2020 Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted multiple responses to safeguard life, and the efforts of frontline workers across the globe are… | Read on »
The Work of Metaphor in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Published: 26 May 2020 by Irish Humanities Alliance On March 18th, as Covid-19 spread across the United States, Donald Trump declared himself a “wartime president”. Like many of his fellow… | Read on »
Where to for communication and journalism in the post-Coronavirus world?
An earlier version in Portuguese appeared in Público, 8 May 2020. Social relations did not come to an end with the confinement measures adopted to reduce exposure to Covid-19, even… | Read on »
A Letter from the Emergency Room
Jac Saorsa, Discarded mask. Oil on paper, 2020 First posted in Synapsis, 15 May 2020 In early January, scientists identified SARS-CoV2 as the causative agent for a cluster of pneumonia… | Read on »
Covid-19: Heading Home to Italy during the Crisis
“Self-portrait” in transit. Photo: Giada Lagana. In Italy, Covid-19 started earlier than anywhere else in Europe. Italians living abroad, and especially those living in the UK, lived it twice: alone,… | Read on »
We need a hive mind, not a herd mentality.
These are strange times we are living through. At the beginning of the Covid crisis I was uplifted to listen to people singing from their balconies, but in recent days… | Read on »
A Quieter but Less Silent Spring? Bird song and COVID-19
It could seem crass to talk of happy coincidences in the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak but one fortunate aspect is that the epidemic arrived in northern Europe during springtime. While daily… | Read on »