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Tina Miller
I’m not a regular tweeter, but on Sunday evening (10-05-20) was driven to reach for my phone as Boris Johnson signed off from his ‘keep alert’ broadcast, next-steps-in-the-pandemic, rallying call (@proftinamiller). This was because in a 14+ minute speech there was no mention of family, even as families sat in expectation, hope and lockdown, to […]
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Ann Vickery
In Australia, something (or other) is in the air. The worst bushfire season on record has been succeeded by COVID-19. Iconic beaches were eerily empty during the Easter holiday period, being part of the extended lockdown restrictions. Many in the south-eastern parts of the country are suffering first from drought, then from bushfire, and finally […]
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Mark Williams
Although politically progressive, Jacinda Ardern has consistently used the language of conservative, rural New Zealand throughout the COVID-19 crisis. She often does so through sport, not surprisingly given her own small town background and her husband’s job hosting a popular television series on fishing. Notably, Ardern announced the government’s decision to move to a full […]
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
“We’re all in this together,” proclaim many Americans in this time of the global covid-19 pandemic. One meme displays the word VIRUS with the letters VIR marked out, highlighting US. The solidarity slogan is printed below, followed by “We are coronavirus.” But who are ‘we’, ‘us’? Whose experiences get erased to ensure that ‘all’ are […]
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Manfred Mudelsee
What picture to show on the cover of a book about climate extremes? Such events have a big potential to cost human lives and harm the economy. Illustrate this danger? A photo of a starving child in a desert? The chaos in a city hit by a hurricane? Certainly not. Photo selection is an intimate […]
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Sherryl Vint
As someone who thinks and writes about how speculative fiction helps us to navigate the ways that science and technology shape daily life, I regularly encounter proclamations that we are “living in a science fictional world.” Generally, this sentiment describes something like self-driving cars or the gene-editing possibilities of CRISPR technology—things that once seemed the […]
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Paul Crosthwaite
A viral pandemic is spidering across the globe, and so too is an emotional one. Fears and anxieties spread and mutate in whispered late-night conversations and flashing updates, working their own damage on bodies and minds. There is deep fear of the virus itself, of course, and fear as well of its economic impact. The current crisis has rendered the economic laws that govern […]
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Miri Rubin
Living Lockdown as an academic historian has meant learning a great deal, and fast. There was the move to online teaching and student support, meetings to plan the first academic year with social isolation, and helping to keep research – and the training of historians – alive and meaningful. Like so many others it seems […]
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Tina Miller
I’m not a regular tweeter, but on Sunday evening (10-05-20) was driven to reach for my phone as Boris Johnson signed off from his ‘keep alert’ broadcast, next-steps-in-the-pandemic, rallying call (@proftinamiller). This was because in a 14+ minute speech there was no mention of family, even as families sat in expectation, hope and lockdown, to […]
Read More
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Ann Vickery
In Australia, something (or other) is in the air. The worst bushfire season on record has been succeeded by COVID-19. Iconic beaches were eerily empty during the Easter holiday period, being part of the extended lockdown restrictions. Many in the south-eastern parts of the country are suffering first from drought, then from bushfire, and finally […]
Read More
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Mark Williams
Although politically progressive, Jacinda Ardern has consistently used the language of conservative, rural New Zealand throughout the COVID-19 crisis. She often does so through sport, not surprisingly given her own small town background and her husband’s job hosting a popular television series on fishing. Notably, Ardern announced the government’s decision to move to a full […]
Read More
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
“We’re all in this together,” proclaim many Americans in this time of the global covid-19 pandemic. One meme displays the word VIRUS with the letters VIR marked out, highlighting US. The solidarity slogan is printed below, followed by “We are coronavirus.” But who are ‘we’, ‘us’? Whose experiences get erased to ensure that ‘all’ are […]
Read More
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Manfred Mudelsee
What picture to show on the cover of a book about climate extremes? Such events have a big potential to cost human lives and harm the economy. Illustrate this danger? A photo of a starving child in a desert? The chaos in a city hit by a hurricane? Certainly not. Photo selection is an intimate […]
Read More
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Sherryl Vint
As someone who thinks and writes about how speculative fiction helps us to navigate the ways that science and technology shape daily life, I regularly encounter proclamations that we are “living in a science fictional world.” Generally, this sentiment describes something like self-driving cars or the gene-editing possibilities of CRISPR technology—things that once seemed the […]
Read More
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Paul Crosthwaite
A viral pandemic is spidering across the globe, and so too is an emotional one. Fears and anxieties spread and mutate in whispered late-night conversations and flashing updates, working their own damage on bodies and minds. There is deep fear of the virus itself, of course, and fear as well of its economic impact. The current crisis has rendered the economic laws that govern […]
Read More
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Miri Rubin
Living Lockdown as an academic historian has meant learning a great deal, and fast. There was the move to online teaching and student support, meetings to plan the first academic year with social isolation, and helping to keep research – and the training of historians – alive and meaningful. Like so many others it seems […]
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