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Much of current French literature deals with social issues, with a particular focus on reality. In the context of the increasingly visible effects of man-made climate change, this interest in social issues is combined with an interest in ecology and environmental protection. French climate fiction is often set in rural areas, which have undergone massive structural change over the last 50 years. The article examines an example of ecocritical sociobiofiction, Serge Joncour’s family saga – with its two parts Nature humaine (2020) and Chaleur humaine (2023) – which, through the example of a farming family in the south of France, chronicles a France increasingly marked by socio-ecological and environmental themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The advent of COVID-19 and the subsequent closing of religious institutions through lockdowns created a pandemonium that saw churches not being able to meet physically for worship. COVID-19 lockdowns diluted the traditional meaning of sacramental theology for mainline churches. The effects of the pandemic were so bad that churches in Zimbabwe were closed towards Lent season in 2020. Mainline churches that used to shun the technologisation of religion were forced to embrace technology, in order to be relevant. Unfortunately, sacraments that demanded face-to-face administration remained a theological dilemma. Using the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe as a case study, the aim of this article is to challenge the church's traditional sacramental theology and propose a theological treatise that has relevance in the context of pandemics such as COVID-19. The article proposes a reinterpretation of sacramental theology that makes the rite sacred to the lives of the parishioners, even during pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article accords epistemic privilege to comfort women as embodiment of the perversion of hospitality. It draws a parallelism between their surviving the pandemics of World War II as forcibly recruited sex slaves and COVID-19. Through their lived experience as survivors of pandemics, a feminist-postcolonial theology of radical hospitality first critiques biblical narratives of men's hospitality to men. The parallel stories of Lot's offer of his virgin daughters (Gen. 19) and the Levite's offer of his concubine (Judges 19) expose, first, the hierarchisation of male guests over women, as property of men, and secondly, the inviolable creed of hospitality conferred on men by men, that is sustained by the cultural code that marks women's bodies as violable. Secondly, the article argues that extending hospitality to comfort women (for example, war reparations) goes beyond the "law of ekstasis", as touted in Fratelli Tutti, as comfort women themselves embody love, reciprocity, and inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 55 days of detention imposed by the French authorities as a protective measure to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus, from 13 March to 11 May, I made notes and linked to several cuts and scars. It was my intention to open some lines of reflection on the impact of this pandemic on three major domains or spaces of psychological reality of which I characterized the formations and processes as follows: the intraspychic space of which I was dedicated to subjects in their singularity; these of the intersubjective, of the connections they make with other subjects; these of pluri-subjective ensembles such as families, groups and institutions. These spaces are not closed off, they are porous in relation to mutual influence and transformation. So it is the flux of the mental reality between these areas during the pandemic that I focus my attention. In particular, she focuses on what seems to me to be the background of the malaise in contemporary culture, an unease that affects both the whole and each of the psychic spaces separately. These notes reflect my preliminary and partial reflections on the spaces of mental reality and manifestations of malaise during this period of pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article tries to understand the manifold impact the coronavirus crisis has had on social life. Beck's 'risk society' is discussed, especially in the pandemic's transition from a risk to a concrete threat. Moreover, the article shows that the World Health Organization was already framing its discourse in connection with risk, though the nation-state model that dominates global politics prevented it from taking more decisive action, not because nation-states are weak, but because they simply did not ascribe importance to looming pandemics. This is bound to change: politically-steered and policy-oriented state capabilities – taxation, managing, moulding, surveillance, coercion, materialization, along with a legal meta-capability, which never waned, return to the forefront. At least partly in the West and Latin America the security of populations has taken centre-stage. Keynesianism and some sort of state welfarism are making a comeback. Changes in 'global health governance' are happening, too. While the precise direction of change is unclear, the article presents some future possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For several decades, the 1918-20 global influenza outbreak has been called "the forgotten pandemic." Although recent scholarly and public interest in the pandemic has complicated the narrative of forgetting, the label has stuck. Highlighting historical evidence of influenza's long-term impact upon survivors, family, and community in Canada, the flu stories presented here, diverse in form and content, verify that a key question in pandemic influenza history is not whether the pandemic was forgotten or remembered, but by whom, and in what ways, it has been suppressed - or foregrounded. By moving beyond the classic epidemic plot line, with beginning, middle, and end, historians can find new methodologies and evidence with which to more fully understand the influenza pandemic's unfolding intersection with colonialism, war, social inequality, and labour struggles in the 20 th century.