Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mass Observation’s 12th May Diaries
This book will be published by Bloomsbury on 16 May 2024 (see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/everyday-life-in-the-covid19-pandemic-9781350434691/). Below, I provide a summary. Before that, let me see if I can tempt you to read on by transcribing four endorsements/reviews of the book: ‘I defy anyone who lived through the lockdown months of 2020 not to be struck by a…
Interview with History of the Human Sciences
I did an interview with History of the Human Sciences about a special section we edited on ‘Archiving the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown’. The interview can be found here: https://www.histhum.com/interview-archiving-the-covid-19-pandemic/. The issue it refers to (36.2) can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hhsa/36/2.
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown
The second and third articles from this project have just been published in History of the Human Sciences (Volume 36, Issue 2; see https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231152139 and https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231170574). They should be open access. Here are the abstracts: Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown The COVID-19 pandemic generated debates about how pandemics should be known.…
CFP: Clive Barnett’s Geographies
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 29 Aug to 1 Sept 2023, London Convenors: Nick Clarke (University of Southampton) and Felicity Callard (University of Glasgow) Clive Barnett died suddenly in December 2021. We’d like to organise a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference bringing together Clive’s friends, colleagues, and interlocutors to remember him, to celebrate his life and…
Beyond compliance: Good citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic
I’ve spent 2022 writing up three papers Clive and I discussed during 2021. The first of these has just been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (see http://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12587). The article should be open access. Here is the abstract: In the UK, discussion of good citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic largely focused on…
How do people respond to public health measures? Ordinary ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic
Clive and I wrote this on 22 December. We agreed to post it in January, when people would be back on Twitter, so that is what I’m doing. The post summarises a full-length paper we submitted for review in mid-December. The COVID-19 pandemic has been presented as a biopolitical event that extends and transforms neoliberal…
Geographies of generosity: Remembering Clive Barnett
This blog, and the project behind it, is (was) a collaboration between Clive Barnett and myself. Clive died on 24 December 2021. I’ll work out what this means for the project in the coming weeks and months. For now, here are some words on Clive: This is not a formal obituary. There will be other…
Everyday life in the COVID-19 pandemic: Full set of videos now available
During 2021, supported by the British Academy, we collaborated with Jessica Scantlebury and Kirsty Pattrick at the Mass Observation Archive (MOA) to organise a seminar series on everyday life in the COVID-19 pandemic. Over six months, 16 papers were presented by 20 speakers from universities, archives, and think tanks in the UK, elsewhere in Europe,…
Using Mass Observation’s COVID-19 collections: Videos of the seminar series
The seminar series runs from May to November 2021. For more more information on the seminar series, please see https://covidresponsibility.org/2021/04/26/using-mass-observations-covid-19-collections-seminar-schedule/. The video of the first seminar is now available. The playlist for videos of all the seminars can be found on Mass Observation’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHab2Tt38DJF9GS_z3lwzV1YJIBqjCLI6.
Using Mass Observation’s Covid-19 Collections: Seminar Schedule
Here is the schedule for this online seminar series. The seminars will be on Wednesday afternoons, 1400-1600 GMT. If you’d like to receive joining instructions, please e-mail n.clarke@soton.ac.uk. The organisers are Nick Clarke (University of Southampton) and Clive Barnett (University of Exeter), with Kirsty Pattrick and Jessica Scantlebury (Mass Observation Archive). We thank the British…
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