Author Archives: pzumbansen

[Saptarishi Bandopadhyay] Saturday/Sunday, April 25th-26th, 2020 Introduction Virtually no one is happy about the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Many are calling for and convening formal investigations. This is a wise and necessary venture. But exactly what is it to be investigated remains an open question. A public inquiry that limits itself toContinue reading “Before the plague.”

[Phillip Paiement] April, 23, 2020 In the first entry to this CoronaJournal, Peer Zumbansen made note of the remarks made by a group of law students during a late-March online lecture. One of their reactions to covid-19, in the context of their legal education, included the consideration of ways to ‘sue China.’ When I readContinue reading “Litigating Crisis.”

[Vanisha Sukdeo] Wednesday, April 22, 2020 As Peer and Priya’s blog allows for us to reflect on the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on our daily lives, I return to a topic I wrote about in my first book published in 2018. I wrote about compassion fatigue which is the notion explored by David CameronContinue reading “Compassion fatigue and distancing”

[Utkarsh Agarwal] Sunday, April 19, 2020 I hope that the spread of Corona virus comes under control in the U.S. soon. In India, it is being controlled very well, and strict orders are being implemented every day for social distancing. No movement out of the home is permitted unless absolutely necessary and that only excludesContinue reading “Letter from Delhi”

[Simon Archer] Monday, 13 April 2020 Statistics. It is Easter Sunday in Toronto; in our COVID timeline, we’re about four weeks into the “lockdown”. The last time I posted was April 1, about two weeks ago. The experience of time has slowed down considerably as the lockdown conditions continue, now into week five.

[Peer Zumbansen] Saturday/Sunday 11-12 April 2020 Understanding. Maybe it begins with numbers. But, which? Which are relevant, important, more so than others? And what is one to do with them? Numbers don’t lie. Not an hour, not a minute passes without more unsettling news, each time again from yet another corner of the world. EachContinue reading “Corona’s Distinctions – Numbers, Echo Chambers and Geographies”

[Roxanne Dubois] Saturday, April 11, 2020 Reflections on the parallels of physical training and the required practice, endurance and effort needed to build a better world. I am not one of those people who enjoys running. I get why some love the activity; it’s freeing, accessible and mobile. I just hate it. I am runningContinue reading “Movement building”

[Joshua Shaw] Friday, April 10, 2020 After twenty-eight days in isolation, I have concluded my anti-depressants have stopped working. It seems obvious to me now as I pace my apartment, flitting between couch, armchair, bed and, even more briefly, my desk, searching desperately for a place that can conjure a sense of determination, an excitableContinue reading “Quarantine-Bodies: An Auto-Psychogeography of Law”

[Ralf Michaels] Tuesday, 7 April, 2020 Perikles, killed 429 BC by the plague in Athens, now being disinfectedPicture by Stavros Papantoniou (facebook) James Meek, author of a recent novel about the great plague, predicts history will “bifurcate: in one version the epidemic will have changed everything – social histories – and in the other itContinue reading “Learning from Corona?”

[Irina Lehner] Sunday, April 5, 2020 Whether I open a newspaper, go online on social media or have real-life conversations – wherever I look, Corona is there. How can it be that, suddenly, my mental, academic, and even physical horizon has been reduced so thoroughly to one single topic? This often induces an overwhelming feelingContinue reading “New Perspectives?”