Déconfinement : vers l’invention de nouveaux rituels

Par Fanny Parise // Le déconfinement renvoie à un imaginaire anxiogène, voir eschatologique. L’espérance fondée dans l’attente de la fin du confinement semble se heurter à une crainte d’un futur non maîtrisé, malgré les aspirations de changements de société. Les individus déploient des stratégies compensatoires et adaptatives afin de rendre viable la néo-normalité imposée par la Covid-19. De nouvelles pratiques apparaissent et les normes socioculturelles se complexifient. La vie quotidienne ne va plus de soi. Décryptage.

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

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.

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

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).

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The Equilibrium of Control I: Pandemic Exit-Strategies in Historical Perspective

Par Dana Mahr // In J.K. Rowlings 1999 novel „Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban“, the orphan boy and wizard apprentice Harry, spends the third year of his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with his friends. There, he continues to solve mysteries sourounding a murderous dark wizard that killed his parents shortly after his birth.

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