pressured schools and families into maintaining children's academic performance. This meant that more than 200 million students engaged with unprecedented large-scale online education practice. However, attending school online was not merely an immense
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Marla Frederick, Yunus Doğan Telliel, and Heather Mellquist Lehto
changing, although to what degree and for how long remain to be seen. Of Religious Practice and Community With online religion, the changes in Sunday morning service, Bible study, children's church, funerals, and even musical performances are far
Physically Distant – Socially Intimate
Reflecting on Public Performances of Resistance in a Pandemic Situation
Marion Hamm
-arranged during this public performance (Hamm 2020) under lockdown. Based on fieldnotes, online communication on the day, open-ended digital strolls and peer-to-peer communication, I constructed a thick description by contextualising ethnographic scenes around
Reinforcing Authentic Intimacy?
Relationships between an Escort Boy and His Male Clients in the Spectre of COVID-19 in France
Kostia Lennes
of Pleasure and Performance in Sex Work ’, Sexualities 20 , no. 3 : 344 – 363 , doi: 10.1177/1363460716665781 . 10.1177/1363460716665781 Tabet , P. ( 1987 ), ‘ Du don au tarif: Les relations sexuelles impliquant compensation’ [From donation
Latin America and COVID-19
Political Rights and Presidential Leadership to the Test
Brigitte Weiffen
Abstract
Latin America was hit by COVID-19 in a moment of (socio-)economic distress and political unrest. This essay reflects on the immediate repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis for democracy in the region. It expounds how responding to the pandemic put to the test the still consolidating democracies with their long-standing defects in the areas of political and civil rights and horizontal accountability. In the course of coping with the crisis, it is precisely in these problem areas that additional risks for democracy have arisen due to infringements of political rights and the performance of presidents. Regarding the latter, the ambiguities of presidential leadership become particularly evident when comparing pragmatic and populist responses to the crisis.
Nadeem Malik
informal conversations with people from different strata of Lahore's population illuminate the overarching influence of religion on the way people perceived and dealt with the coronavirus. In this article, I will demonstrate how the performance of
Covidiots and the Clamour of the Virus-as-Question
Some Reflections on Biomedical Culture, Futurity and Finitude
Bryan Lim
media trend of #stayhome. As individuals share photos and videos of themselves engaged in a variety of ‘responsible’ activities all while #stayinghome, the performance of such acts of social distancing on social media facilitate a form of virtue
Porous Bodies
Corporeal Intimacies, Disgust and Violence in a COVID-19 World
Cynthia Sear
the working class and Global South (e.g. Prose 2020 ). Further, these corporeal performances are a form of ‘biopower’: ‘techniques [which achieve] the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations’ ( Foucault 1978: 140 ; and qtd in Sear 2020
Lauri Rapeli and Inga Saikkonen
the electorate (on this, see, for example, Markowski and Tworzecki 2020 ; Svolik 2019 ). The grave public health and economic consequences of the pandemic may seriously dent the “performance legitimacy” of these regimes, and can undermine the regimes
Andrew Dawson and Simone Dennis
exponentially. This is, of course, cruelly ironic, for human touch is central to care professions and professions that entail the performance of caring ( Hochschild 2012 ). The truth of this is borne out in how care sectors, especially those pertaining to people