HSS Responses
HSS Responses
"At a deeper level, we also look to our social scientists, philosophers, historians, artists & others to help us to rebuild our sense of nationhood, our independence and our ability to take our place proudly in the community of nations."
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| Viruses, rupture and renewal: on teaching music during and beyond the Lockdown | As a somewhat “new” lecturer in my university, I closed off 2019 reflecting on what it means to lecture music(ology) in a university that is on the outskirts of the national and global metropolis. | viruses_rupture_and_renewal-_on_teaching_music_during_and_beyond_the_lockdown_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Anticipatory Grief | Two months since COVID-19 became a reality in our lives, the picture of what awaits us is coming into stark relief. Many of us will die. Many will most certainly be infected with the coronavirus and those of us who recover will know many others who will die. The wave is poised above our heads and its collapse is inevitable. | anticipatory_grief_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Artists improvising distance and closeness during COVID-19 | The COVID-19 pandemic has, unlike any other global crisis, driven the performance of everyday life almost wholly to a digital landscape of interactions – from Zoom meetings and WhatsApp video calls with friends and family, right through to Instagram “lockdown” parties. | artists_improvising_distance_and_closeness_during_covid-19_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Ask not what you can do to Corona, but what Corona can do to you | No matter the angle of the spotlight, Coronavirus is positioned in the front and centre. Its message is loud and clear, the human race will be used as vehicles to occupy the globe. Corona seeks to thrive and it is impatient and aggressive. It is discriminatory. | ask_not_what_you_can_do_to_corona_but_what_corona_can_do_to_you_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Black death and mourning in the time of COVID-19 | Black bodies have been the sight of devastation for centuries. We who inhabit and love these bodies live in a state of perpetual mourning | black_death_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Conceptualising Ubuntu as deconstruction of solidarity and collective action | In South Africa we have the wonderful concept of "Ubuntu" which translates as "humanity". Ubuntu speaks to solidarity and human collective effort to achieve unity or oneness, and has a beautiful history. Today, however, Ubuntu is often a reduced to a theoretical concept, sometimes used for political or personal gain. | conceptualising_ubuntu_as_deconstruction_of_solidarity_and_collective_action_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |
| Corona must bring change of policy thinking now!!! | Let us start this article with some truth. One does not like or believe in the hegemony of the big three ratings agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Group), particularly for developing states like South Africa. However, it would be folly to pretend that they do not have an influence over how international investors and markets view our small state. | corona_must_bring_change_of_policy_thinking_now_-_covid-19_1[1].pdf |
| COVID-19 and India's Development Crisis | On 31 December last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took power in 2014. | covid-19_and_indias_development_crisis_-_covid-19_0[1].pdf |