https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/ The latest from GHCC » Global History and Culture Centre Blog (tag [Bobby Tam]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:06:29 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder Abyan Scheme Adrianna Catena African History alchemy Americas Amy Evans Andes Anne Gerritsen anti-colonialism Argentina Art History Asian History Basque nationalism Benjamin T. Smith Bertie Mandelblatt Black Lives Bobby Tam British Empire Camilo Uribe Botta cartography Catriona Sharples Cheng He Chile Chris Hess Climate History Cold War Collections Colombia covid-19 David Anderson Decolonisation Digital Humanities Diplomacy Drugs East Africa Economic history Egypt Emanuele Podda Emma Orchardson Environmental History Ethiopia European Conference on African Studies European history Far Right Fleur Martin Food History Foundling Hospital French History Gender Geoffrey Parker GHCC Global History Guido van Meersbergen Guillemette Crouzet Hannah Dennett Helen Clifford Historiography History of Science History of Science and Technology Hong Kong Human Rights Imperial History Imperialism Industrialisation Interdisciplinarity Italy Jack Bowman James Poskett Jeremy Adelman Jessica Lambert Jim Hulbert Josh Patel Joshua Grey Kären Wigen Kendrick Lamar Kenya Labour History Lacquer Latin America Lisa Taberner Liz Egan Malawi Young Pioneers Maria Reyes Baztán material culture Mathilde Alain Mau Mau Maxine Berg Media Mexico Michael Bycroft Microhistory Museums Music Neoliberalism Networks Nicolás Gómez Baeza Niels Boender Orchids Pan-Africanism pandemic Patagonia PhD public health racism Reading Group Rhodesia Robert Fletcher Rose Miyonga Russia Sergei Zotov Serin Quinn SIngapore Social History Somak Biswas Sophie Greenway Sweet potato Television The James Collection Tirthankar Roy Transnational history Travel Trevor Burnard USSR V&A War of the Locust White nationalism William Harrop Yemen Zhu Jing Zimbabwe Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/hygienic_modernity_reflections <div class="news-thumbnail" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><img class="thumbnail" width="100" height="100" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/file/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog?sbrPage=%2Ffac%2Farts%2Fhistory%2Fghcc%2Fblog&newsItem=8a17841b77fc86d2017801dcb91e5d9a" alt="image"></div><p>What does ‘being modern’ mean? The current pandemic brings this perennial question once again to the fore. Is a strong centralised state that enforces strict public health measures to save lives ‘modern’? Or is a free society where people can make their own choices and control their own body ‘modern’? Is a population that firmly believes in science over all other values ‘modern’? Or is a society where there is no single fundamental assumption, but only constant scepticism and debate ‘modern’? Taking cues from Ruth Rogaski's <em>Hygienic Modernity </em>(2004), <strong>Bobby Tam</strong> seeks to complicate the idea of what 'modern' is based on his observations of the pandemic response in the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore.</p> covid-19 Bobby Tam Global History Hong Kong public health SIngapore Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:09:00 GMT 8a17841b77fc86d2017801dcb91e5d9a