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Olympic Recoveries (2020)

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In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But the “Corona Calamity” (korona ka) is bigger than the Olympics. The totality of the disaster is impossible to capture. The very thing that makes it a calamity are the myriad rhythms of crisis that intersect at COVID-19. If there is a shared theme to be found in these rhythms, it is the question of recovery. When will it happen? What will it look like? And what, exactly, will we recover? In what follows, I share three rhythms of crisis and recovery: national history, the tourism industry, and the parcel delivery industry.

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Authors & Contributors
Fernando Rosa
Gerardo Ienna
John Harriss
Arnold, David J.
Brigo, Francesco
Merle Eisenberg
Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Pandemics
Public health
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Epidemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
China
Asia
India
South Korea
Hong Kong
Singapore
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