The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy (2020)
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(2020). The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy

The article addresses the future of European Union (EU) data privacy law and argues for a shift of paradigm, calling for a less technology-driven and more human-centric and societally focused approach. It discusses two case studies — poor people’s da... Read More about The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy.

World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation. (2020)
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(2020). World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 238-245. https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413312000033X

The UK, and England in particular, has suffered egregiously poor outcomes in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. This short perspective points to the explanation in terms of both current British politics and the public health policy inheritance. Boris Jo... Read More about World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation..

On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020)
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Stott. (2020). On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 694 - 702. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12398

In this paper, we analyse the conditions under which the COVID-19 pandemic will lead either to social order (adherence to measures put in place by authorities to control the pandemic) or to social disorder (resistance to such measures and the emergen... Read More about On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. (2020)
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(2020). Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2991

This article gives key reasons for the UK's tardy and confused attempts to react to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains very poor outcomes in the UK (in terms of the spread of the virus and high mortality, already striking at the time of writing), in... Read More about Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19..

Fragility within Stability: the state, the clan and resilience in Somaliland (2020)
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Richards. (2020). Fragility within Stability: the state, the clan and resilience in Somaliland. Third World Quarterly, 41(6), 1067-1083. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1730693

Even in the context of a relatively flourishing state, fragility can be an enduring feature of a political system, particularly in the case of recently established or unrecognised states. This article examines the nature of statebuilding in a specifi... Read More about Fragility within Stability: the state, the clan and resilience in Somaliland.

Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique (2020)
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(2020). Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique. Cultural Politics, https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017200

The emergence of so-called post-truth politics saw popular calls to return to the ‘facts’ clash with humanities and social science work which maintains a commitment to situated knowledge: as crystallised by prominent attacks upon gender studies, post... Read More about Post-truths, Common Worlds, and Critical Politics: Critiquing Bruno Latour's Renewed Critique of Critique.