The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #37
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Anthropocene
The Pandemic Revealed What Cities Have Surrendered to Cars
Tom Vanderbilt | The Atlantic
The hunger for COVID-19 and climate crisis coverage [Podcast]
Mark Hertsgaard | CJR
Reinventing Agriculture in the Time of COVID-19
A. Suresh, A. Amarender Reddy | The Wire
The solution to food insecurity is food sovereignty
Pramesh Pokharel | Al Jazeera
Decrescita, emergenza climatica e cura [Italian]
Lorenzo Velotti | Gli Asini Rivista
Democracy
International Human Rights Law and COVID-19 States of Emergency
Cassandra Emmons | Verfassungsblog
From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu: How surveillance technology is devaluing India’s democratic rights
Kalyani Menon Sen | Scroll
Le « Sud » négligé. Mensonges, pauvreté et répression [French]
Yassamine Mather | Entre les lignes et entre les mots
Brasil tem que renovar agenda e ousar para ser grande, diz Mangabeira [Portuguese]
Roberto Mangabeira Unger | Folha de S.Paulo
Future
Will Covid-19 end the age of Big Oil?
Nafeez Ahmed | Le Monde diplomatique
The corona crisis has made us value migrants: here’s how to build on that
Rosie Carter | openDemocracy
Diffidare dell’ebbrezza da svolta epocale [Italian]
Joseph Vogl | Antinomie
Tech
Covid-19: the controversial role of big tech in digital surveillance
Stephen L Roberts | LSE Business Review
Spatial Computing in confronting COVID-19 [Podcast]
Shashi Shekhar, Pamela Vold | MIT Press Podcast
Des applis numériques pour lutter contre la pandémie: quels problèmes éthiques ? [French]
Gaëlle Prigent | CNRS Le Journal
Überwachung per Corona-App: Die dunkle Seite der Wunderwaffe [German]
Patrick Beuth | Der Spiegel
Social Toll
Submission of evidence on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19, and the UK government response, on ethnic minorities in the UK [PDF]
Kaveri Qureshi et al. | University of Edinburgh
Tracking the Spread of Coronavirus in Prisons
Katie Park | The Marshall Project
Künstler in Amerika: Zur Hölle, die müssen auch essen [German]
Frauke Steffens | Frankfurter Allgemeine
Class & Labour
Coronavirus is not just a health crisis—it’s an environmental justice crisis
Yvette Cabrera | Mother Jones
How do workers organize when we can’t go to work?
Asad Haider | Salon
Amazon’s white-collar workers are starting to stand up for their blue-collar colleagues
Casey Newton | The Verge
The Gig Economy and Covid-19: Fairwork Report on Platform Policies [PDF]
The Fairwork Project
Shalini Randeria: Darf der Corona-Impfstoff patentiert werden? [German]
Elisabeth von Thadden | Die Zeit
International
Turkey’s Erdogan Accused of Playing Politics with Pandemic
Hamdi Firat Buyuk | Balkan Insight
David Harvey: We Need a Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma
David Harvey | Jacobin
Singapore Contained the Coronavirus for Months. Now It Has One of the Worst Outbreaks in Asia.
Chloe Hadavas | Slate
North Africa Confronts Covid-19
David Seddon | Review of African Political Economy
La España a dos velocidades por la crisis del coronavirus [Spanish]
Javier G. Jorrín, Jesús Escudero | El Confidencial
A economia mundo pós pandemia [Portuguese]
Juliano Giassi Goularti | Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil
Public Health
The race for a COVID-19 vaccine: looming global political economy challenges surrounding our last best hope
Simon Rushton | Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
What It Would Take To Lower The Number Of COVID-19 Patients And Flatten The Curve [Podcast]
Pien Huang | All Things Considered
Expertinnen in der Corona-Krise: Drei Frauen gegen das Virus [German]
Susanne Bobek, Sandra Lumetsberger | KURIER
Capitalism
A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Ellen Brown | Canadian Dimension
Neoliberalism’s Coronavirus Calamity
Alfredo Saad Filho | Tribune Magazine
6 Ways Neoliberalism Made this Pandemic Worse
Transform Europe!
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste [Podcast]
Philip Mirowski | Politics Theory Other
« La pandemia y el sistema-mundo » [Spanish]
Ignacio Ramonet | Le Monde diplomatique en español
Cette pandémie marque-t-elle la fin du cycle néolibéral ? [French]
Alexandre Mennucci Maillard | Marianne
A desindustrialização também colapsou a Saúde [Portuguese]
Marcelo Alves Moreira Filho, Antônio José Alves Jr. | Outras Palavras
Academic
COVID – 19: A Critical Ontology of the present
Moulay Driss El Maarouf et al. | Educational Philosophy and Theory
Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic
Maryam Farboodi et al. | NBER
Rural Matters — Coronavirus and the Navajo Nation
Heather Kovich | New England Journal of Medicine
Public Sphere
Fact checking in the time of COVID-19
Pierre Andrews | Media@LSE blog
Filmmaking and Covid 19: Ethics, Craft and Safety [Video]
Francesca Tosarelli | Dart Center
Art for a Time of Uncertainty
Joy Sperling | Hyperallergic
Joseph Vogl: „Die Moral interveniert, wenn man nicht weiterweiß“ [German]
Tomasz Kurianowicz | Die Welt
Saskia Sassen, socióloga: “Cuando los financieros hablan, muy pocos políticos entienden lo que dicen” [Spanish]
Braulio García Jaén | El País
Bolsonaro e o distanciamento da poliarquia [Portuguese]
Lillian Lages Lino | Justificando
Context
Urban Warfare: Housing Justice Under a Global Pandemic [Video]
Daniel Aldana-Cohen et al. | Urban Democracy Lab
The Return of the Era of Governors
David Dayen | The American Prospect
Schwerer Verlauf [German]
H. Charisius et al. | Süddeutsche Zeitung