Penser le futur – Page 3

The Corona crisis from a gender perspective: Opening up a debate

28 mai 202025 mai 2020

Par la Société Suisse en études genre // COVID-19 has strongly gendered effects. This entry offers an overview of some of these effects and their possible short- and long-term consequences. This overview is far from being exhaustive, but rather serves as a starting point for a broader debate among a diverse audience and as a plea for research into the issues raised here.

The Equilibrium of Control II: Will Smartphones Help Us to Overcome the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic?

26 mai 202026 mai 2020

Par Dana Mahr // One of various ways to understand the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is to view it in form of a real-time experiment in balancing medical and economic as well as individual and collective needs. The modeling of pandemic preparedness scenarios before the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 largely depended upon only two sets of information: Data derived from surveying the spread of the common flu (influenza A-C) and incomplete information about historical pandemics like the Spanish Flu of 1918 to 1919, the Asian Flu of 1957, the Hong Kong Flu of 1968, or even other types of viruses like for example HIV (Medema et al. 2004).

The Migrant-Citizen Nexus in View of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Can We De-Migranticize Responses?

19 mai 202010 juin 2020

Par Janine Dahinden // The world has been confronted by not only the coronavirus pandemic, but also a surge of national(ist) responses to it. By closing their borders and introducing a travel ban for the Schengen Area, European countries have retreated into national fortresses that nonetheless remain highly unequal internally, prioritizing their own citizens’ needs over those of foreigners.

Un pic peut en cacher un autre

14 mai 202014 mai 2020

Par Horace Perret // Et si le pic que les épidémiologistes ont annoncé avec soulagement avoir été franchi à la mi-avril n’en masquait pas un autre, le pic de notre civilisation consumériste ? La crise du covid-19 représente une opportunité historique de faire émerger une société plus durable, juste et joyeuse grâce à l’électrochoc qu’elle nous inflige.

La prochaine pandémie est prévisible, il est temps de prendre au sérieux la crise écologique

13 mai 202014 mai 2020

Par un collectif de 120 scientifiques // La relation entre pandémie et destruction des écosystèmes est maintenant bien établie, mais elle est trop ignorée par le grand public et les instances de décision, écrivent plus de 120 scientifiques, dont deux Prix Nobel, dans une tribune collective.

From corona anxiety towards a new Enlightenment – Why a return to normal is no meaningful option

28 avril 202012 mai 2020

Par Guido Palazzo // Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond (2005) 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 be the driving force of the crisis and as a result, societies collapse. The dominating routine of the modern Capitalist society is consumption.