Tourism under COVID-19 siege: a sophronic investigation
Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli explores the moral and political ramifications involved in the rushed relaxation of border control and the reinstitution of tourism mobilities without any...
Northern Notes: 2020
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COVID-19, Immobility and the Story of Sri Lanka’s Travel Industry
After presenting the most significant challenges faced by the Sri Lankan tourist industry since decolonisation, Dr Kamalika Jayathilaka reflects on what it means to put...
Tales of Facebook: Covid-19, solidarity and risk in a Yorkshire Village
Dr Maria Rovisco debates the forms of communal solidarity and informal policing that have emerged during the COVID-19-induced lockdown. The Covid-19 pandemic is a public...
Making “Sense” of Online Religion
In this post, Josiah Kidwell reflects on the ways COVID-19 has made the use of new technologies more central to religion, prompting a series of...
Brave New Virus
In this essay, Pedro Scuro debates the deep mistrust society displays towards intellectuals and the urgent need to revive people's trust in science, public authorities...
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...
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...