The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #32
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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International
After the Pandemic: Perils and Promise for Western Balkans
Albana Shehaj | Balkan Insight
Panic and discipline at the edge of Europe in Slovakia
Mark Johnson | No Borders
Why Jair Bolsonaro’s Coronavirus Denialism Won’t Hurt Him
Eduardo Mello | Foreign Policy
COVID-19 and India’s Addiction to Colonial-Era Laws
Ameya Pratap Singh, Dhruva Gandhi | The Diplomat
Why COVID-19 is another blow for Kenya's food security
Timothy Njagi Njeru | The Conversation
The occupation has left Israel’s health system unequipped to handle a pandemic
Scott Cooper | 972 Mag
Public Sphere
The Philosopher’s Epidemic
Marco D'Eramo | New Left Review
A Global View of the Pandemic’s Effect on Higher Education
Stephanie Hall | The Century Foundation
Covid-19 is forcing us to dwell in uncertainty. History can help.
Sari Altschuler | Washington Post
How Not to Lose the COVID-19 Communication War
Dietram A. Scheufele | Slate
Sozialwissenschaftler: Die Ratlosigkeit der Experten im Expertenrat [German]
Mark Siemons | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Alain Cambier : « Le complotisme est un mal endémique en temps de pandémie » [French]
Alain Cambier | Le Monde
Guerrear ou cuidar? O caso da educação [Portuguese]
Rui Machado Gomes | Público
Public Health
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn't guide U.S. policies, critics say
Sharon Begley | CNBC
To Tackle a Virus, Indian Officials Peddle Pseudoscience
Ruchi Kumar | Undark
L’immunité après le Covid-19 en question [French]
Vincent Bordenave, Delphine Chayet | Le Figaro
Democracy
As pandemic rages, Europe watches democracy fall
Catherine Davies | New Cold War
Testing the Limits of EU Health Emergency Power
Alberto Alemanno | Verfassungsblog
Covid-19 - Forscher:innen warnen, Kontaktverfolgung könne zur Überwachung missbraucht werden [German]
Chris Köver | Netzpolitik
La peste e lo stato [Italian]
Alberto Toscano | Il Rasoio di Occam
Rui Tavares Lanceiro: “A crise das democracias é uma crise desta década, nem sequer é da década que vem” [Portuguese]
Gabriel Ribeiro | Shifter
Economy
Modern monetary theory—pandemic edition
David F. Ruccio | Real-World Economics Review
China’s economy: the risk of a second coronavirus wave
Tom Mitchell | Financial Times
Socialise the Food System
Matt Huber | Tribune Magazine
The euro’s corona crisis
Michael Robert | Michael Roberts Blog
How COVID-19’s Economic Crisis Could Slowly Break Up OPEC
Candace Rondeaux | World Politics Review
Anthropocene
Food Security and COVID-19 [Podcast]
Maximo Torero | Food Talk
Why the New Coronavirus Affects Some Animals, but Not Others
Katherine J. Wu | Smithsonian Magazine
COVID-19 Could Help Solve Climate Riddles
Adam Levy | Scientific American Magazine
Biologe im Gespräch: „Der Klimawandel ist gefährlicher als Corona“ [German]
Christoph Schäfer | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Il crepuscolo del geo-capitalismo. Virus, corpi, natura, valore [Italian]
Dario Padovan, Andrea Lo Bianco | Rivista Eco
Academic
Africa in the Path of Covid-19
Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Jessica Justman | New England Journal of Medicine
COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives
Christopher M. Weible et al. | Policy Sciences
Déjà vu: stimulating open drug discovery for SARS-CoV-2
Sean Ekins et al. | Drug Discovery Today
Capitalism
Agamben’s Polemic: On Biopolitics, State, and Capital
Eli B. Lichtenstein | Salvage Magazine
Coronavirus, Crisis, and the End of Neoliberalism
Alfredo Saad-Filho | Socialist Project
Virologistics I: The virus as logistical “force majeure”
Brett Neilson | University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society blog
Patience
Frédéric Lordon | Le Monde diplomatique
A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic
Alessandra Mezzadri | Developing Economics
The “Sink” for Indian Capitalism
Prabhat Patnaik | International Development Economics Associates
Corona Capitalism in Honduras
Karen Spring, Judy Ancel | Labor Notes
La productividad en tiempos del coronavirus [Spanish]
El Salto
Class & Labour
The Pandemic Is Christmas for Anti-Labor Ghouls
Nick Martin | The New Republic
Jack Ma v. Bill Gates: Does Africa need another benevolent billionaire?
Simon Allison | The Mail & Guardian
Historiker Malte Thießen: „Seuchen verschärfen Ungleichheit“ [German]
Sabine Am Orde | taz
A Covid-19 e o direito à cidade dos pobres [Portuguese]
César Simoni Santos | Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil
Context
Broadening the perspective on Covid-19
Jochem Zuijderwijk | Leiden Madtrics
A History of Disease, Faith, and Recovery in Rome
Anthony Majanlahti | Hyperallergic
Historical Pandemics [Video]
Susan Kent | CU Boulder Conference on World Affairs
Inside China’s Wild West, where ‘mask machines are like cash printers’
Finbarr Bermingham, Cissy Zhou | South China Morning Post
Corona-Flucht aus den Städten: Warum der Lockdown auf dem Land nicht besser auszuhalten ist [German]
Saskia Trebing | Monopol
Verso uno spazio pubblico rarefatto? [Italian]
Mario Spada | Il Giornale dell'Architettura
Social Toll
In Kashmir, the Coronavirus Means Increased Police Powers
Umar, Rauf, Haroon | Jacobin
‘This Virus Kills Way Too Many People.’ Hunger-Striking ICE Detainees Demand Answers.
Marcia Brown | The American Prospect
Soledades mayores [Spanish]
Maribel Izcue | Revista 5W
Im «Brotkorb Amerikas» fehlt frisches Essen [German]
Marie-Astrid Langer | Neue Zürcher Zeitung
À Paris, les sans-abri luttent contre le dénuement, la faim et la peur du Covid-19 [French]
Angélique Négroni | Le Figaro
Os povos indígenas isolados também estão em isolamento voluntário [Portuguese]
El País Brasil
Future
What would and should a post-pandemic world look like?
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera
Coronavirus e cambiamenti sociali: intervista esclusiva al professor Luigi Caramiello [Spanish]
Danilo Zanghi | Sociologicamente
Yves Citton et Jacopo Rasmi" «Un jour, les mots “croissance” et “chômage” sembleront aussi bizarres qu’“anges” ou “immaculée conception”» [French]
Catherine Calvet, Nicolas Celnik | Libération
Ce que le Covid-19 va changer à l’équilibre des forces dans le monde [French]
Dominique Moïsi | Les Echos
Tech
India’s digital response to COVID-19 risks inefficacy, exclusion and discrimination
Divij Joshi, Amba Kak | The Caravan
Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19 [Podcast]
Carissa Véliz | Philosophical Disquisitions
How 3-D printing is helping the US fight medical equipment shortages and the coronavirus pandemic
Maggie Overfelt | CNBC
Tracking Covid-19 using big data and big tech: a digital Pandora’s Box
Stephen L Roberts | LSE British Politics and Policy
More surveillance and less privacy will be the new normal after the coronavirus pandemic
David Meyer | Fortune
Corona-Krise: Was #CoronaVirus mit Wikipedia zu tun hat [German]
Stefan M. Seydel | NZZ
Le Health Data Hub ou le risque d'une santé marchandisée [French]
Simon Woillet | Le Vent Se Lève
Contact Tracing: scontri e domande [Italian]
Carola Frediani | Guerre di Rete