COVID-19 BLOG

Wavering between optimism and pessimism: Covid–19, corruption and organised crime Heather Marquette International Development Department, University of Birmingham Friends and colleagues have heard me banging on about the film ‘Ready Player One’ for some time as having one of the scariest intro scenes ever. Set in 2045, the film stars a young man named Wade COVID-19 BLOG

COVID-19 BLOG

“New” Criminal conduct and law enforcement challenges during COVID-19 in Peru Fátima Rojas Boucher Criminal Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Interior, Peru The Peruvian medical and scientific communities have raised concerns about the pandemic virus COVID-19. These experts have explained that COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new family-type of the Coronaviruses COVID-19 BLOG

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The Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 in India: a comparison with the Black Death Prem Mahadevan Senior Analyst, Global Initiative against Organised Crime During the 14th century, bubonic plague originating from China, made its way along overland trade routes to the Crimea, from where Italian merchant ships brought it to Western Europe. Within a year, the COVID-19 BLOG

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Organized Crime and Covid-19 Martina Bedetti The effects of health emergency on day to day life Following the health emergency, the Italian government has gradually imposed severe measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. In the end of February authorities placed few towns in the Lodi area on lockdown while in early March these measures COVID-19 BLOG

COVID-19 BLOG

Corona and Sweden Carina GunnarsonInstitute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden The news reports from Italy, France and the rest of the world have been unrelenting throughout the month of March. Swedes have waited with increasing trepidation for “the big wave”, which is now said to have arrived. On March 29, it was reported that the COVID-19 BLOG

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“It was just a flu”, they said? Deborah Alimi European Centre for Sociology and Political Science, University Paris I It is just a flu, they say. We are learning the hard way, it is not. Like exiled at home, when enough fortunate not infected, the world has entered a parallel movie-like era that tests most COVID-19 BLOG

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Five Questions that could be Answered in Living though the COVID-19 Pandemic Jay Albanese 1. We’ll live our lives on-line, rather than in-person? There was a clear trend before COVID-19 for people of all ages to go out less often to lectures, classes, concerts, movies, and events of all kinds. Streaming and YouTube videos have COVID-19 BLOG

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Online learning experts: More than 15 minutes of fame? How the corona-pandemic elevates online learning experts from obscurity into the spotlight Alexandra Mihai We are living in extraordinary times. Most of us are by now stuck at home, for an indefinite period of time, trying our best to be productive while coping with an inevitable COVID-19 BLOG

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Controcorrente, a blog diary.  Reflections and thoughts by academics and practitioners about Coronavirus, daily life and society.  This is a spontaneous blog space that we have created to act as a historic diary to record and reflect the feelings, thoughts and concerns of academics-practitioners during this Covid-19 pandemic.  The aim of this blog is for our SG and its networks to have a voice about COVID-19 BLOG