Between Covid-19 and Organised Crime: Some preliminary notes Ludmila Quirós Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC), SHOC-RUSI Since the covid-19 pandemic went global, human beings have been experiencing what geographer Alison Mountz (2020) point out as a proliferation of spaces of confinements through which we are interconnected yet socially-distanced. In a sudden way, we … COVID-19 BLOG
Living and adapting to the coronavirus Stephen Musau Independent Policing Oversight Authority in Kenya One of the famous quotes by the father of scientific method, Galileo Galilei, is knowing thyself is the greatest wisdom. There is no other time this quote was more relevant than the current times the world is in. What, with the … COVID-19 BLOG
An academic of the floating world(with apologies to Ishiguro) Niall Hamilton-Smith University of Stirling The countdown to lockdown was I’m sure for all colleagues, fast, unexpected (if expected), and dramatic. At Stirling our normally serene campus was notably flustered as we shambolically improvised an exit, packing key belongings into boots, scrambling for tech, and besieging … COVID-19 BLOG
From the corona crisis towards a new Enlightenment Guido Palazzo Universitè de Lausanne Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond finds a rather simple but frightening explanation. When we are in a crisis and we do not know what to do, we tend to reinforce established routines. Sometimes, those routines make things worse. They might even … COVID-19 BLOG
Challenging isolation is a revolutionary act Galadriel Ravelli University of Bath For academics, isolation is an old friend. Most of us have probably spent weeks without talking in person to a single human being while writing our PhD theses. There have been weeks during my PhD in which the only interaction I could have was … COVID-19 BLOG
Auto-ethnography of everyday Covid-19 Edinburgh Chris Holligan University of the West of Scotland The domesticPrior to Boris Johnston’s 8.30 pm national news broadcast some weeks ago my wife said as she rushed to the car to leave me taking the dog with her “Goodbye. I’ll miss you”. I stayed sitting at the PC busy as … COVID-19
The Great Pandemic Fausto Carabajal Glass Mexican Council on Foreign Relations It began in the East and quickly spread to distant territories. The fallout of the Antonine plague in 165 AD during the reign of Marcus Aurelius was a major event that modified the trajectory of history in unimaginable ways. The implacable plague –that most … COVID-19 BLOG
Impacts of the COVID-19? Sayaka Fukumi Ritsumeikan University The international society is fragile to transmittable diseases. Revealed again. Although there are some positive news of calming down of Corona Panic, still the impact and effective countermeasures are under investigation, and could only speculate. Corona Pandemic started in China and soon reached to South Korea and … COVID-19 BLOG
Covid-19, Europol and humankind Prof. em. dr. Cyrille Fijnaut KU Leuven In the last few weeks newspapers all over the EU have spent quite a lot of time reflecting upon on the possible impacts the rather severe policies national governments have adopted to contain the spread of the coronavirus, have and will have on crime. … COVID-19 BLOG
Between safety and surveillance Simona Guerra University of Leicester Not long ago, with one of my MA students, we planned a talk on surveillance capitalism, following the recent publication of the extraordinary book by Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. These days, … COVID-19 BLOG
