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Readers' Forum: A Call for Comments
No full textThis section is an open forum for discussion between readers and authors. If you would like to submit comments on specific articles and/or open a discussion thread on any of the related themes please send them directly to the editorial board by email, to <interfaculty[at]hass.tsukuba.ac.jp>. Your comments will be posted in this section as soon as they can be reviewed by the Editorial Board.
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About Resonance
Full text linkThis introduction to the special issue of Inter Faculty, volume 10, takes up the theme of resonance in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing societal shifts. It gives a short commentary of the individual studies presented here, placing them within the wider consideration of the planet-wide turning point facing humanity in relation to the natural world
Reflections on Personal Experiences of Migration During the Current Pandemic in the Context of Psychotherapeutic Communication
Full text linkLessons from COVID-19: Human Solidarity a Third Pillar for TICAD
Full text linkAll through the past seven editions, starting in 1993, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) debates and agendas for action have been guided by two pillar principles, those of Ownership and Partnership. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has dramatically illustrated the importance of solidarity. Thus, Human Solidarity could well be adopted by TICAD 8 as a third pillar to complement and consolidate the current two pillars of Ownership and Partnership. This new pillar would link back to the concept of Human Security proposed to the UN in 1999 by Japan and made relevant anew by the COVID-19 pandemic. It would also link back to the UN Resolution 56/207 of the 57th UN GA of 2001 relative to the proposition of a World Solidarity Fund made by Tunisia in 2001
Another Time of Renewal: Pandemics, Power, and Knowledge
Full text linkThis commentary first presents a genealogy of pandemics and world orders. Second, it highlights multiple origins of pandemics especially COVID-19 and the Spanish flu. Third, it shows the shortcomings of international organizations such as WHO and sovereignty against a global pandemic. Fourth, it compares the cases of Taiwan and Japan in their responses to COVID-19 and China. Fifth, it discusses the limits of existing knowledge and the exploration of transdisciplinary knowledge to take on the unknown. Finally, after reiterating this commentary, it concludes by drawing attention to the social responsibility of scientists and decision-makers across national borders
What Does the (In)ability to React to the Covid-19 Coronavirus Reveal About Our Societies?
Full text linkThe many questions raised by the novel coronavirus pandemic go far beyond medical issues. Everything that was self-evident recently became impossible after the global spread of the virus. Despite the declarative EU emphasis of solidarity, the novel coronavirus pandemic clearly demonstrated the limits of solidarity and opened doors to nationalism. This crisis reveals all the anomalies of globalisation and the capitalist system in its currently dominant version of neoliberalism. The present crisis is indeed posing a serious challenge to the existing state system and capitalist economy. Evidence in support of this argument may be found in the surprising generosity of governments in many countries. Former enthusiastic advocates of austerity measures have come to realise that the legitimacy of the system is being tested at this time
