The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #41
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Context
COVID-19 and the Harsh Reality of Empathy Distribution
Peter Sterling | Scientific American
Notes on a Pandemic: How society has responded to Covid-19
Hessom Razavi | Australian Book Review
Meet The Renegade Scientist Behind Hydroxychloroquine, Donald Trump's Miracle Coronavirus Cure
Katy Lee | The Esquire
Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed Intra-EU Labor Mobility
Monica Andriescu | Migration Policy Institute
Capitalism
The exodus of finance from the third world
Prabhat Patnaik | Monthly Review
Coronavirus and the legacy of austerity [Podcast]
Frank van Lerven | Weekly Economics
Konsum: Brauch' ich das? [German]
Elisabeth Raether | Die Zeit
Servizi pubblici impoveriti e precari. Come affronteremo la “fase due”? [Italian]
Giulia Rodano | HuffingtonPost Italia
Il virus che c’era già. Neoliberalismo e pandemia [Italian]
Fabrizio Capoccetti | La Fionda
A grande crise da globalização [Portuguese]
José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes | Público
Democracy
Global Health Expertise in the Time of Coronavirus
Charles Ebikeme | African Arguments
Across the World, the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Become an Invitation to Autocracy
S.Y. Quraishi | The Wire
Welcome to the era of Coronialism
Oren Yiftachel | 972 Magazine
“I became a pariah.” Coronavirus victims’ data is leaked on social media in Pakistan
Ramsha Jahangir | Coda Story
Corona-Demonstrationen: Rechte, Linke und Esoteriker? [German]
Rüdiger Soldt | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Die zweite Welle des Corona-Populismus [German]
Hans von der Burchard et al. | WELT
Pandemia, principio di precauzione e governo della complessità [Italian]
Walter Ganapini | Valori
Economy
COVID-19: how to transform the industrial policy toolkit in developing nations
Keston Perry | Developing Economics
What’s the Fed doing in response to the COVID-19 crisis? What more could it do?
Jeffrey Cheng et al. | The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Kritik der moralischen Ökonomie [German]
Reinhard Heinisch | Wiener Zeitung
Adam Tooze: «L’ampleur de la crise s’aggrave de jour en jour, sous nos yeux» [French]
Marie Charrel | Le Monde
Future
The Coronavirus Won’t Usher in an American Welfare State
Lane Kenworthy | Foreign Affairs
The Coronavirus and Our Future
Kim Stanley Robinson | The New Yorker
Covid-19's future: small outbreaks, monster wave, or ongoing crisis
Sharon Begley | STAT
«Avec l’urbanisme tactique, l’espace public devient un terrain d’expérimentation» [French]
Coralie Schaub | Libération
Abbiate cura - Società della cura e reddito di autodeterminazione [Italian]
Cristina Morini | Global Project
Class & Labour
Coronavirus Class Politics: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Common Dreams | Common Dreams
Singapore Was A Shining Star In COVID Control – Until It Wasn't [Podcast]
Jason Beaubien | All Things Considered
“Similar to Times of War”: The Staggering Toll of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers
Nina Martin, Bernice Yeung | ProPublica
We're modern slaves': How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war
Oliver Laughland | The Guardian
Covid-19 e avanço tecnológico. Nasce um outro mundo do trabalho. Entrevistas especiais com Ruy Braga Neto e Rafael Grohmann [Portuguese]
João Vitor Santos | Instituto Humanitas Unisinos
International
Ghana responds to the coronavirus
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed | Africa is a Country
The Coronavirus Is Creating a Crisis on Europe’s Borders
Sinan Ulgen | Foreign Policy
Pandemics without borders, South Asia’s evolution
Kanak Mani Dixit | The Hindu
‘We will all die in silence’: Rohingya in Bangladesh fear Covid-19 disaster
Callum Rice-Coates | The National
Amerika probt schon mal die Wiedereröffnung der Wirtschaft [German]
Jörg Bibow | Makroskop
Au cœur de la tempête, le système multilatéral survivra-t-il? [French]
Cyrille Louis | Le Figaro
A quarentena do Mercosul [Portuguese]
Leonardo Granato, Tatiana Berringer | A Terra é redonda
Public Health
Natural spillover or research lab leak? Why a credible investigation is needed to determine the origin of the coronavirus pandemic
Filippa Lentzos | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Inside Germany's Covid-19 testing masterclass
Stephen Buranyi | Prospect Magazine
The Symbolic Power of Virus Testing
Kristin Hedges | Sapiens
Hartmut Rosa: “Los intentos de controlarlo todo, la ciencia, la tecnología, la política... nos han llevado a lo opuesto” [Spanish]
Pablo Elorduy | El Salto
Chi sono i nuovi contagiati [Italian]
Elena Zacchetti | Il Post
Academic
Protecting healthcare workers from inhaled SARS-CoV-2 virus
John W Cherrie et al. | Occupational Medicine
Downloading COVID-19 contact tracing apps is a moral obligation
Mike King | Journal of Medical Ethics
Tracing infection from mobility data
Caroline Ash | Science
Racial, Economic and Health Inequality and COVID-19 Infection in the United States
Vida Abedi et al. | medRxiv
Tech
How the Crisis Could Embolden Big Tech
Lizzie O’Leary | Slate
COVID-19: can technology become a tool of oppression and surveillance?
Petra Molnar | openDemocracy
Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzungen - Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser [German]
Ingo Dachwitz | Netzpolitik
De la crisis sanitaria a la era del control digital [Spanish]
Félix Tréguer | Le Monde diplomatique
Social Toll
One thing the pandemic hasn’t stopped: Aggressive medical-debt collection
Alec MacGillis | Salon
Expertin zu Frauen in der Coronakrise: „An die Bruchstellen ran – jetzt“ [German]
Patricia Hecht | taz
A favela pela favela: como comunidades se unem contra coronavírus diante da omissão do poder público [Portuguese]
Heloisa Aun | Catraca Livre
Public Sphere
Retrieving Agamben’s Questions
Babette Babich | Philosophical Reflections
Five Inexplicabilities of the Pandemic
Keti Chukhrov | e-flux conversations
Learning from the Virus
Paul B. Preciado | Artforum
Kritik an Giorgio Agambens Thesen [German]
Andrea Dernbach | Der Tagesspiegel
Giorgio Agamben, La medicina come religione [Italian]
Giorgio Agamben | Quodlibet
Anthropocene
Driving home ‘single-use’: plastic politics in the times of the COVID-19
Tridibesh Dey, Mike Michael | Discover Society
Biodiversity or Bust
Tudor Alexis | Project Syndicate
La economía del petróleo y el clima (en tiempos de pandemia) [Spanish]
Eduardo Giordano | Público