This paper explores Mathias Besong’s My Struggle with COVID-19 (2020), Nikita Gill’s Love in the Time of Coronavirus and Elizabeth Mitchell’s The Doctor Apocalypse (2020) focusses on how these poems illustrate authors’ reactions to spread coronavirus. Therefore, it engages genre theory argues that examined verse adopts features themes post-apocalyptic literature. research employs a comparative ...

Here I build upon Robert Orsi’s work by arguing that we can see presence—and the longing for it—at beyond obvious spaces of religious practice. Presence, propose, is alive and well in mediated apocalypticism, intense imagination future preoccupies those who consume its narratives film, games, role plays. Presence a way bringing worlds into tangible form, touching them letting touch you. It is, ...

Climate change poses an existential threat to the global economy. While there is a growing body of literature on economic consequences climate change, research link between and sovereign default risk nonexistent. We aim fill this gap in by estimating impact vulnerability resilience probability debt default. Using sample 116 countries over period 1995–2017, we find that have significant effects ...

In this paper we will consider the question of mutation as it is manifested in press coverage of MRSA in UK hospitals. This represents a fertile field of discourse which brings into focus issues relating to microbes, people and working practices as well as the concepts of risk and vulnerability. A regular feature of reporting has been the presence of explanations for drug resistance involving r...

The NHS faces an existential crisis. Last week, four news stories foretold its apocalypse. Think of them as the four horse riders from the Book of Revelation. On 11 October Chris Hopson, chief of NHS Providers, told the Commons health select committee that England’s 44 sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) seemed unrealistic and vastly overambitious, even to their authors. Drafted unde...

Background There is a compelling need to protect natural plant communities and restore them in degraded landscapes. Activities must be guided by sound scientific principles, practical conservation tools, and clear priorities. With perhaps one-third of the world’s flora facing extinction, scientists and conservation managers will need to work rapidly and collaboratively, recognizing each other’s...