ABSTRACT
This chapter offers reflections on emerging ethical orientations that have taken shape due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issues explored occurred in the space between ethics and politics as people, parties and projects sought to make sense of, respond to and direct collective responses to the impacts of the pandemic. Specifically, the chapter deals with four major issues: the emergent ethics of separations and solidarities resulting from the new challenges of living together and apart; the politics of lives, livelihoods and liberties arising from conflicts and changes of economic and social life; the trouble with ‘normal’ as a focus of popular and political desires; and the frictions emanating from racialized inequalities in pandemic times.
