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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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