May, 2020
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, May 29, 2020 10:47 - 3 Comments
Comment | Why it’s your civic duty not to download the UK’s contact tracing app
Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson are trying to persuade us that it’s our civic duty to take part in their Covid-19 ‘test and track’ programme. But their approach - based on secrecy, exceptionalism and deception - means our civic duty may well be to resist the programme actively, argues Paul Bernal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:17 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Against Crisis Mentality
The Covid19 pandemic has exposed many of the social and economic contradictions underlying our normality. Adopting a short-termist crisis mentality in our response cannot be the answer, writes Nora Ziegler.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 16:19 - 0 Comments
Culture | Tiger King, COVID-19, and the Nature of Work
In its lurid depictions of strange kinds of jobs – idealised and precarious and dangerous – Tiger King perfectly echoes our Lockdown anxieties about the nature and politics of work, write Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith.
Columns, In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:31 - 1 Comment
In Theory | Anti-Lockdown Theory: In defence of Giorgio Agamben
In the first of an occasional series, Ceasefire's theory columnist Andy McLaverty-Robinson examines Giorgio Agamben's much-criticised analysis of the Covid-19 crisis.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, May 11, 2020 13:19 - 1 Comment
Comment | Nobody ‘deserves’ to be tasered
Last week, footage emerged of a father being tasered by police in front of his child. The mixed public reaction to the incident has been a reminder of how pervasive acceptance of 'justified' violence remains in Britain, writes Roxy Legane.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 5, 2020 14:34 - 0 Comments
Analysis | ‘Stay Home, Save lives, Ask Questions’: On proportionality during this crisis
As the UK enters its seventh week of lockdown, we must ask questions about the effects of the government's indefinite measures, particularly on marginalised groups and those who are already overpoliced, writes Ghazal Tipu.
