VOLUME 8(3) • 2020
Pandemic Education
ABSTRACT. Pandemic education refers not only to how we educate ourselves and others about the pandemic, but also – and more importantly – to how the pandemic educates us. And how does it do so? Firstly, it educates us by being a threat that we cannot ignore. Whereas we think that we can ignore the t..
The Pragmatic Nature of the Virus and its Biopolitical Drive
ABSTRACT. There are three expressions of the vital energies of the COVID-19 virus: from its idea, from the things and events in its ambit, and from its activity in establishing connections. Its pragmatic nature consists in its capacity for heterogeneous connections between ideas about it, the things..
Capital Immunodeficiency and the Viral Contagion of Capitalism
ABSTRACT. As rates of COVID-19 continue to surge across North America, the ‘immunocompromised’ status of the West has come into plain view. The immunological deficiency of the West, we argue, is founded on and exacerbated by the conditions of ‘capitalist realism,’ as described in the work of Mark Fi..
Will We Learn from COVID-19? Ecopedagogical Calling (Un)heard
ABSTRACT. ‘(Un)heard’ in the title questions if we will learn from experiencing COVID-19 to counter unrestrained environmental devastation occurring, or will we remain largely untaught? I argue the need for transformative, Freirean-based ecopedagogy for praxis through, in part, problematizing and th..
The Quiet Earth: Re-Functioning Socio-material Knowledge in the Crisis of the Pandemic
ABSTRACT. With its lockdown and restrictions on movement, the Covid-19 pandemic has created a rapid change in the relationship we have with the material environment. The resulting social isolation and our increased reliance on the virtual of the internet have meant that our potential for material en..
Plague, Pedagogy and Pleasure: Creative Interventions in Higher Education
ABSTRACT. The present contribution addresses the complex interaction between creative and affective responses to the COVID-19 crises in higher educational practices. Looking authoethnographically at my teaching practice, I diffract my reading by means of an Italian novel, the plot of which occurs du..
Immunized Community and Biopolitics in Times of Pandemic
ABSTRACT. A virus, as a vital power, by challenging human life, paradoxically provokes immunity by protecting as much as denying life. The vitality of the virus threatens the life of humanity; it imposes and controls world politics, so that biopolitics is not only about control over life but also ab..
International Higher Education and Global Citizenship Education: The Rise of Critical Cosmopolitanism’s ‘Personhood’ in the Age of COVID-19
ABSTRACT. COVID-19 is the first truly global pandemic of the 21st century, and while it has claimed thousands of lives, it has also provided our current global risk society with opportunities to inhabit increasingly rare moments of transnational openness and collectivity. However, higher education i..
An Ethic of Care for People with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Towards Greater Social Justice
ABSTRACT: The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in mass infections of the populations worldwide. During the pandemic, the prevailing value of social justice in the social public service system has been under threat by the conduct of herd immunity and resurgence of social Darwinism. During the CO..
COVID-19 and Disparities in Education: Collective Responsibility Can Address Inequities
ABSTRACT. COVID-19 has exacerbated disparities in education and has further widened the achievement gap between economically advantaged and disadvantaged students. Without access to a computer or reliable broadband internet, minority students and students of colour are often challenged in participat..
Pandemic Education as an ‘Education-against-Thoughtlessness’: Creating Collective Responsibility against Self-Interest
ABSTRACT. This paper proposes a pandemic education recognising the problem of thoughtlessness, according to Hannah Arendt. This thoughtlessness occurs if one is too absorbed with his or her self-interest than the collective responsibility. This paper expounds on the role of the school as the interse..
COVID-19: The Changing Face of Global Citizenship and the Rise of Pandemic Citizenship
ABSTRACT. With the recent advent of COVID-19, more and more news has been spread throughout various media outlets of the negative behaviour stemming from citizens around the world. This behaviour has led to a new word being popularised on the internet: covidiot. With the arrival of such new words an..