Humans evolved to be hyper-cooperative, particularly when among people who are well
known to them, when relationships involve reciprocal helping opportunities, and when the …

Mutual aid groups have been an indispensable part of the public response to the COVID-19
pandemic. They have provided many forms of support, in particular grocery shopping which …

Over the past few months, COVID-19 has ravaged health systems and economies in
countries across the world. While many would argue that a pandemic of respiratory disease …

In our world of fractured truths, unparalleled disparities and technological wizardry, it is vital
that we interrogate the largely unquestioned political axioms that have brought us to the …

How to respond quickly, effectively, and sensitively to large‐scale crises is debated at length
in the aid sector. Institutional focuses on projects and outcomes have led to abundant …

The COVID-19 pandemic that gripped the world since the end of 2019 has been felt most
immediately both as a health crisis and an economic, social and political crisis. Secondary …

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of
seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated by …

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses of capitalism as an economy and polity,
and revealed the latent potential of postcapitalism. A novel coronavirus is more likely to arise …

Care is a human need and capacity without which we cannot survive and flourish. However,
care is often underpaid and considered an excessive burden in the economy despite being …

This is the Introduction to the special issue on Covid-19 and the cultural constructions of a
global crisis. Contextualizing understandings of the pandemic in relation to the concepts of …