The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #47
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Class & Labour
Zoomism and Discipline for Productive Immobility
Ariadna Estévez | Critical Legal Thinking
Who will go back to work?
Will Davies | Political Econony Research Center
COVID-19 and inequalities at work: A gender lens
Joanne Conaghan | Futures of Work
What Hannah Arendt can teach us about work in the time of Covid-19
Lyndsey Stonebridge | New Statesman
Überwachung oder Industriestandard? So kontrolliert der Online-Händler die Mitarbeiter in seinen Logistikzentren [German]
Philip Kaleta | Business Insider Deutschland
Con las puras manos [Spanish]
Agus Morales | Revista 5W
«Travailler plus» ou le retour de la guerre sociale [French]
Romaric Godin | Mediapart
Public Sphere
(Hospital) trolley problems: Some philosophical responses to the coronavirus
Nigel Warburton | The Times Literary Supplement
Why coronavirus may make the world more accessible
Matthew Keegan | BBC
The biopolitics of pandemic citizenship
Adil Hossain | Discover Society
Home Thoughts for New Times
Enzo Traverso | Verso Books
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat?
Jeffrey Brainard | Science
Bernard Stiegler: «Cette épidémie révèle la vulnérabilité de nos systèmes» [French]
Eugénie Barbezat | L'Humanité
Dobbiamo fare spazio (pubblico) [Italian]
Margherita Manfra | Il Giornale dell'Architettura
Imagens, letras e sons de uma pandemia [Portuguese]
Mário Rui André, João Ribeiro | Shifter
Future
Rebuilding the world after Covid-19 [Podcast]
Margaret MacMillan et al. | The Prospect Interview
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
Atul Gawande | The New Yorker
COVID-19: Why We Must Reset Our Thinking
Ian Goldin | Inter Press Service
"Dann erleiden wir auch Schiffbruch, nur auf andere Weise" [German]
Holger Burckhart, Michael Quante | Jan-Martin Wiarda
Para o futuro começar [Portuguese]
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Sul 21
O que vem depois do amanhã: notas sobre a agonia de uma sociedade pós-pandêmica [Portuguese]
Emanuel Messias Aguiar de Castro | antropoLÓGICAS EPIDÊMICAS
Capitalism
COVID-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market
Vito Laterza, Louis Philippe Römer | Somatosphere
The Death of the Central Bank Myth
Adam Tooze | Foreign Policy
Jérôme Baschet: "Le Covid-19 est une maladie du Capitalocène" [French]
Marion Rousset | Marianne
Butler: Quando a economia se torna o berro agonizante dos eugenistas [Portuguese]
Juan Dominguez, Rafael Zen | Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil
Tech
COVID-19: Switching online is not an option in conflict-stricken countries in the Middle East
Saoussen Ben Cheikh | Global Voices
How Google and Apple outflanked governments in the race to build coronavirus apps
Mark Scott | Politico Europe
AI after the pandemic
Daniel McQuillan | Medium
Rethinking Digital Platforms for the Post-COVID-19 Era
Jennifer Cobbe, Elettra Bietti | CIGI
Mit 3-D-Druck durch die Krise [German]
Helmut Martin-Jung | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Academic
One Million or One Hundred Million Casualties? – The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Dirk A. Zetzsche | Universite du Luxembourg
Ethics of Digital Contact Tracing and COVID-19: Who Is (Not) Free to Go?
Michael Klenk et al. | Delft University of Technology
Ethics and governance for digital disease surveillance
Michelle M. Mello, C. Jason Wang | Science
Democracy, Culture, and Contagion: Political Regimes and Countries Responsiveness to Covid-19
Carl Benedikt Frey | Oxford Martin School
Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates
Benjamin Rader et al. | Journal of Travel Medicine
Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic
Carly A. Phillips et al. | Nature Climate Change
Public Health
Why vaccine ‘nationalism’ could slow coronavirus fight
Richard Milne | Financial Times
Abortion After the Pandemic
Joanna Wuest | Dissent
Masks off
William Shoki | Africa is a Country
Il teatro del virus [Italian]
Rocco Ronchi | Doppiozero
No sul global, as cidades formam a última linha de defesa contra a Covid-19 [Portuguese]
Robert Muggah, Miguel Lago Muggah | Folha de S.Paulo
International
Who Is Trump Really Protecting During the Coronavirus Crisis?
John Stoehr | Public Seminar
How Palestinian citizens are putting Israel’s coronavirus powers in check
Meron Rapoport | 972 Mag
Migration: how Europe is using coronavirus to reinforce its hostile environment in the Mediterranean
Maurice Stierl | The Conversation
Mexico is severely — and maybe purposefully — undercounting its coronavirus deaths
Alex Ward | Vox
Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa
Nidhi Parekh | African Arguments
Europe’s Far-Right has a Cure for COVID-19: Nationalism
Michael Colborne | Balkan Insight
Coronavirus has given China the chance to become the true global leader. Will it take it?
Peter Frankopan | The Guardian
Context
COVID-19 has turned cities’ greatest assets into disadvantages
Rune Dahl Fitjar | LSE Covid-19
Pandemics: Past, Present, Future [Podcast]
John Brooke, Jim Harris | History Talk
How plagues change the world
Jerome Roos | New Statesman
The Four Men Responsible For America's COVID-19 Test Disaster
Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone
Hubert Thielicke: Das Virus und das Militär [German]
Hubert Thielicke | Das Blättchen
Historiker Oliver Zimmer: Global Governance wäre verheerend [German]
NZZ
Los virus emergentes [Spanish]
Mario González Hevilla | Esglobal
Débat: Le Covid-19 s’attaquerait-il aussi à la langue française? [French]
Eliane Viennot | Entre les lignes et entre les mots
Vivere in un posto al sole e in un tempo fuor di sesto [Italian]
Gennaro Fucile | Quaderni d'Altri Tempi
O trabalho do pensamento crítico agora [Portuguese]
Joan Wallach Scott | Revista Bula
Amitav Ghosh, la realtà instabile delle crisi [Italian]
Stella Levantesi | il manifesto
Social Toll
UK food inequality under Covid-19 and the community restaurant
Benjamin Selwyn | Le Monde diplomatique
The Distribution of Suffering, Relief, and Greed in the Pandemic
James S. Henry, David J. Lighton | The American Interest
Educación en medio de una pandemia: sálvese quien pueda [Spanish]
Andrea Liba | Pikara
Covid-19: du déni des inégalités à la police sanitaire. Entretien avec Didier Fassin [French]
Didier Fassin | Contretemps
Da fatalidade epidemiológica à ferramenta de extermínio: a gestão necropolítica da pandemia [Portuguese]
Leonardo Oliveira | Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Para além do rodízio, por uma política de transporte que proteja a vida [Portuguese]
Raquel Rolnik | A Cidade é Nossa
Economy
Maybe Modern Monetary Theory is an answer to the COVID-19 economic crisis [Podcast]
Stephanie Kelton | Make Me Smart
Messages from “Fiscal Space”
Jayati Ghosh | Project Syndicate
The return of State planning
André Roncaglia de Carvalho | Developing Economics
Financement de la crise du Covid19: le retour des rentes perpétuelles? [French]
Hubert de Vauplane | Le Grand Continent
Michel Aglietta «La vraie richesse des nations est leur capital public» [French]
Antoine Reverchon | Le Monde
Democracy
The Tragic Omissions of Governance by Curve
Holly Jean Buck | Strelka
Ruin des Mittelstands [German]
Maurizio Bach | Soziopolis
Sindaci nell’emergenza [Italian]
Jessy Simonini | Jacobin Italia
Contro l'estetica della morte [Italian]
Marco Revelli | Volere La Luna
O capitão colide com os limites da necropolítica [Portuguese]
Ruy Braga | Outras Palavras
Anthropocene
America’s Slaughterhouses Aren’t Just Killing Animals
Eric Schlosser | The Atlantic
Relaunching the System: Bees, Covid-19 and Tunisia
Habib Ayeb | Review of African Political Economy
Bruno Latour: le Covid comme crash-test [French]
Thibaut Sardier | Libération
È ora di ripensare una volta per tutte il nostro sistema gastronomico [Italian]
Gabriele Rosso | Linkiesta
Estado e desenvolvimento [Portuguese]
José Luís Fiori | A Terra é redonda