Yuanni Wang – Hohai University Loretta Lou – University of Macau, LSE From the clothes we wear to the medicines we take; chemicals are essential to modern living. While chemical products have brought many conveniences to our daily lives, the chemical industry has also caused significant damage to the environment and human health. In China, […]
Patricio Flores Silva – Department of Sociology, University of Warwick [email protected] In his famous book 1984, George Orwell describes a dystopian society, a society where people are strictly controlled in every detail of their daily life. In Airstrip One, where the main character of the novel lives, it is not possible to think beyond the
Linda Soneryd – Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg [email protected] In a pandemic situation, defined by the World Health Organization, WHO, as ‘the worldwide spread of a new disease’, we all need to listen to experts to know how to act for the safety of ourselves and others. Since it is a
Abby Kinchy and Dan Walls – Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [email protected] – [email protected] Like many university staff, we have watched the COVID-19 crisis unfold from the relative safety of our homes, trying to continue our research while physically distanced from the people and places that are central to our investigation.
Sam Mason – Public and Commercial Services Union [email protected] The Coronavirus pandemic has thrust science and technology into the spotlight with urgent and necessary priority. In parallel, assumptions about the nature of work and what skills are valuable in society and the economy have been challenged as health and social care workers, along with many
Ekaterina Gladkova – Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne [email protected] The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is far from being over; yet, it has already exposed a myriad of flaws in our economic, political and social structures. The pandemic has also drawn the attention to the global food system, especially in light
Nickie Charles – Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick [email protected] According to Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, the COVID-19 pandemic ‘is a direct warning that nature can take no more’ and that ‘humanity’s destruction of nature’ must stop (Andersen, 2020). In Jane Goodall’s
Maria Christina Fragkou – Hydrofeminist collective La Gota Negra/ Department of Geography, University of Chile [email protected] Chile is globally renowned for its neoliberal politics, imposed during the military dictatorship between 1973 and 1990, and the implications these have had on water management, crystallised in the infamous Chilean Water Code that has been studied extensively by
Patricio Flores Silva- Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. [email protected] After discovering ‘the new world’, European conquerors felt deeply impressed by its natural richness. Given the majesty of its forests, the unlimited fruits provided by its trees, the fertility of its virgin valleys, the Americas, in general, and South America, in particular, were assumed as
Efren Legaspi, Citizen of Horcón (V Region of Valparaíso, Chile)/Universidad de Sevilla. [email protected] ‘El aire está malo’ (‘the air feels bad´) is a common expression among people from the Quintero-Puchuncaví bay (V Region of Valparaíso, Chile), who must deal with the atmospheric emissions generated by the industrial complex Ventanas on a daily basis. In the