Coerced leisure: New perspectives on free time during the COVID-19 pandemic
In this post, Marta Soligo explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected leisure patterns and the very idea of free time. At the beginning of...
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Pandemics and Popular Culture: Coronavirus and the Imaginary of Disaster
Professor Majid Yar explores the enduring power of apocalyptic cultural imaginaries in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic In 2015, I published a book with...
DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF MILLENNIALS & GENERATION THROUGH COVID-19
In this post, Dr Kim Allen, Dr Kirsty Finn and Professor Nicola Ingram explore discursive constructions of the millennial generation in the context of the COVID-19...
Coronavirus, Risk and Western-Centrism
Dr Ipek Demir argues that the role Western-centrism played in official UK responses to COVID-19 should be investigated by social scientific research on risk. It...
The Virus Diaries Chapter 2, Part II: The Biopolitics of Social Distancing
In this part of Chapter 2, Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli considers how the COVID-19 crisis exemplifies the consolidation of new Western styles of societal control matching...
Going the distance or being grounded at home? Mobilities after COVID-19
Professor Lapointe is looking at tourism from the mobility angle to raise questions about the post-COVID-19 era. Tourism has been a rapidly growing industry for...
The Virus Diaries Launch
From the beginning of April, we bring to you a unique boxset of calamitous recordings to keep your spirit agile and (hopefully) your abs toned....
TOURISM AND THE WAR AGAINST A VIRUS? (Also in Spanish)
Professor Korstanje explores the political biographies of mobilities such as tourism, stressing their entanglement in cultures of imperialism and war to date. To write...