#Social Science Perspectives on Covid-19

Politics & Society

Covid-19: Engaging with Complexity — If Not Now, When?

In a period of uncertainty will ‘complexity science’ lead the way in helping us make sense of the the constantly shifting adjustments people make in the natural cycle of the world?

Sharon Varney | 16.06.2020

Politics & Society

Covid-19 and the Civilizing Process

What are the long-term processes within which the emergence of Covid-19 is fixed? Are infectious diseases a central feature of the civilizing process and how can the form taken by this process help to improve control over those diseases?

Robert van Krieken | 12.06.2020

Politics & Society

Don’t Confuse Constraints with Confinement during COVID-19

Will the words we choose and the thought processes that accompany them help us through this crisis? Can we ever equate freedom with confinement or do we just need to shift our thinking?

Stephanie Walsh Matthews | 08.06.2020

Politics & Society

Covid-19 Is Deepening Postcolonial Global Inequalities

The Covid-19 pandemic reveals global inequalities that are a consequence of European colonialism. At the same time, Europe’s increasing reliance on foreign-trained and foreign-born medical staff amounts to a second colonial drain.

Gurminder K. Bhambra | 26.05.2020

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