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Pandemic Drones

Promises and Perils

Julia M. Hildebrand and Stephanie Sodero

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a “mobility shock.” 1 Physical mobility across geographical space was reduced to domestic and local spaces, and, where possible, shifted to televisual and virtual realms. While many stayed at home, others, such as

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Coda — Pandemic Brexit

Cancelling the Political Future

Bill Schwarz

enabled what previously had been unthinkable to enter the official mind. By contrast, in the pandemic in which we now live time is on hold and the future, the outcome of a political will, diminishes. Certainly, this is so for England, although it

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Peter Levine

On Theorizing Responsibly Although I am pleased to contribute to Democratic Theory in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, I would like to begin with some concerns about theorizing in the midst of a crisis. I will then offer two examples of

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Asma Abbas

the pandemic and of political annihilation, and of the migrant fugues that make it impossible to think about place as a guarantor of being. A migrant who might count as a worker and citizen in more than one place, but probably never as any place's own

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Weiqiang Lin

become one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. 1 However, the COVID-19 pandemic has today presented a major threat to air travel like no other event ever did. The 1973 and 1979 Oil Crises, the September 11 terror attacks, Severe Acute

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The Pandemic of Productivity

The Work of Home and the Work from Home

Suchismita Chattopadhyay

preventive measure, was a luxury in South Asia, given its socio-economic structures. However, nobody was prepared in the least as to how the pandemic was going to be a long-lasting phenomenon dictating a ‘new’ normal. This article takes a closer look at the

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Vincent Rollet

Disaster Management and Emergency Response in 2005. In that context, ASEAN adopted several major regional plans to address communicable diseases such as the ASEAN Multisector Pandemic Preparedness and Response Work Plan (2007–2010), the ASEAN Regional

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Pandemic Passages

An Anthropological Account of Life and Liminality during COVID-19

Genevieve Bell

me: ‘Costco is out of toilet paper!’ We marvel at the fact that Costco can run out of toilet paper. On 6 March, the City of Austin cancels SXSW, and I cancel my plane tickets. Statistics will tell one kind of story of this pandemic – the number

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Andrew Dawson and Simone Dennis

Less than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, its economic impacts have already been massive (see Dawson and Dennis 2020a ). The world has experienced a stock market crash akin to that in the global financial crisis, the GFC, of 2007

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The Case of Germany

Civil Society and Civic Activism in the Pandemic

Susann Worschech

, the erosion of democratic values and structures was imaginable but not yet tangible. Five years later and in the midst of a pandemic that has challenged and transformed institutions, political processes, and social cohesion worldwide, Europe may be