Jenny Edkins

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I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

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YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 10 Impact on Society Impact Film

The Covid 19 impact film released at the start of Module 10 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is a devastating yet essential watch, focusing on how bereavement at that time was so different. According to one witness, Rupinder, it was as if her mother had disappeared or gone missing.
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When This Is Over When This Is Over - Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic; Academics, activists and artists remember and reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic in an inclusive commemorative overview which honours the experien...

Also published by Policy Press: "When this is Over: Reflections on an unequal pandemic." In this book, academics, activists and artists come together to remember, and to reflect on, the pandemic. How can things be different when this is over?
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'But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.'

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

New book tackles funding the investment in UK water that is needed alongside privatisation, arguing that 'The way we charge for water must change... [We need] more progressive bills that reflect the ability to pay'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Vital intervention @andyburnham.bsky.social. The duty of candour must apply in full to the security & intelligence services & every public service so that no institution can hide behind secrecy. Recent scandals about MI5 as well as Manchester Arena bombing highlight why this is so important.

Fascinating discussion of Anya Berger's involvement in John Berger's work: “The new way of seeing,” Anya writes [in 1969], “suddenly became the normal one and the old way—quite tolerable until then—became abnormal and indeed impossible.” 'Ways of Seeing', credited to John Berger, aired in 1972.

A wonderful film that meant a lot to me. I wrote about that here (open access) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Many thanks to Dani House for introducing it to me...

Mohammedali Yaseen Taha reads his poem The Disappeared Oak in English, one of the first Creative Responses published in the Journal of Disappearance Studies, which explores the dimensions of human disappearance, particularly enforced disappearance.

https://ow.ly/3Qa050XMvv1

BMJ has published an editorial calling for #BasicIncome, written by Matthew Johnson and Elliott Johnson, authors of our book 'Basic Income'.

This marks a step toward mainstream endorsement of basic income as a response to inequality.

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1822

Andrew Meyerson (A&E Dr at Royal London Hospital) Dailymotion video by Sands Films

Dr Andrew Meyerson: brilliant on Sky News just now . See also www.dailymotion.com/video/x9i8yyw

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Trauma Time and Memory in Understanding Gender-Based Violence - Chaeyoung Yong, 2025 This article draws upon Jenny Edkins’ notion of ‘trauma time’ and asks how it helps us to better understand entanglement with past trauma in the context of gend...

📝 Out now in Vol. 53! Chaeyoung Yong argues that trauma time offers key insights into "understanding GBV by highlighting the socio-political nature of trauma and critiquing the linear narrative of healing and restoring the social order."
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What role do disasters play in global politics? In Vol. 53’s Special Issue, Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins, and @kandidapurnell.bsky.social explore how embodied trauma disrupts the status quo — and may open a path to a new social-political order.

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...Farjana Islam, @ledbydonkeys.org, @honigsbaum.bsky.social, Herbert Woodward Martin, @franfd.bsky.social, Rita Coleman, Matthew Hogan, Mehreen Hamdany, and Gary Younge.

... Safina Islam, @dipali17.bsky.social, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Hannah Rumble, Karen West, @graciemaybe.bsky.social, Paul Famosaya, Anjana Nair, Patricia Tuitt, Manca Bajec, @markoneinfour.bsky.social, Lara-Rose Iredale, Irene Naikaali Ssentongo, Avril Maddrell, Danielle House...

Many thanks to our brilliant editors (especially @seowoohyeok.bsky.social), my co-authors @amycortvriend.bsky.social, @lucygobag.bsky.social and @kandidapurnell.bsky.social, and all the contributors to "When This is Over": @drblack.bsky.social, @jhmustapha.bsky.social, Sue Bryant, Marvin Thompson...

This paper builds on our 2023 co-edited book "When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic" published by @policypress.bsky.social & the work of its wonderful contributors. #disaster #emergency #resistance #trauma #embodiment #politics
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"During the first three months of 2020... Johnson’s inertia was ... unbearable for NHS staff ... because we knew ... that the bodies were ... going to pile high ... We knew this because it was already happening ... First in Wuhan. Then in northern Italy." @drrachelclarke.com
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"During the first three months of 2020... Johnson’s inertia was ... unbearable for NHS staff ... because we knew ... that the bodies were ... going to pile high ... We knew this because it was already happening ... First in Wuhan. Then in northern Italy." @drrachelclarke.com
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Watch this. Several times.

Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️

Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️

Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing."

We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y

A brilliant reading list, extensive but not overwhelming and usefully arranged in thematic sections.
One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'

But third and most important, the call for the Greens to back STV in the call for PR: 'First-Past-the-Post truly paves a road to a far-right hell for our country.... We need ... the Single Transferable Vote.'

All backed up through analysis of different measures of voters’ political opinions.

Second, the assessment that 'the Greens can safely target 100 or more Labour held seats that are out of the reach of Reform UK and the Conservatives, and be in with a very strong chance of taking them all.'

First, and perhaps not surprising, Ewan Hoyle's comment that "'The Green Party have a 5 point lead over Reform UK in the under 50s' is quite the headline that appears to have been overlooked."

I would say this piece has three significant implications for @zackpolanski.bsky.social's #Green Party.
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