... of enduring COVID‐19 restrictions intersected with the outrage of witnessing racial injustice. Telephone 's versions show how activism can result from an admixture of motives and aims. Against the claim that support for Black Lives Matter was insincere, Telephone imagines the grounds for political action...

...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context...

... ever been seen” (9). Eerily proleptic, these observations from one doctor in late September 1918 have been echoed a century later by countless healthcare workers on the frontline of COVID-19 who throughout the spring of 2020 recorded their grim astonishment at this new coronavirus's aggressive impact...

... it increasingly difficult to align its interests with the less fortunate and within its own ranks” ( viii ). Nevertheless, the advent of COVID-19 has demonstrated that national governments still have powers that they can choose to use for good or ill. “We used to think of governments as powerless,” Yanis...

...Penny Fielding; Andrew Taylor Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 This is the second issue of Novel to draw from papers originally accepted by the Society for Novel Studies conference that was due to take place in April 2020 but was one of the early casualties of the COVID-19...

... and management of geographically dispersed workers. And thirdly, social changes (including consumer attitudes and preferences, as well as gendered and racialized relationships of work) that have resulted in both employers and workers seeking more flexible working patterns” (19). Stretching further back than...