The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #25
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Context
The city will survive coronavirus
Thomas J. Campanella, Lawrence J. Vale | Oxford University Press Blog
Experts warned of a pandemic decades ago. Why weren't we ready?
Robin Marantz Henig | National Geographic
Life in the Time of Cholera: Lessons on a Pandemic
George Prochnik | Emergence Magazine
Anthropocene
China's Global Reach: Urban Social Lives of the More-than-Human
Written Jesse Rodenbiker | Society and Space
Coronavirus Is a Dress Rehearsal for Climate Change
Ana María Archila | The Nation
COVID-19 Provides Lessons on Climate Adaptation for Cities
Amy Turner | State of the Earth
Der Kampf um die Deutung der Coronakrise [German]
Reinhard Loske | klimareporter°
Capitalism
It’s the capitalism, stupid! [Italian]
Maurizio Lazzarato | DeriveApprodi
The coming global recession: building an internationalist response
Jayati Ghosh et al. | Transnational Institute
Barbara Stiegler : « La crise due au coronavirus reflète la vision néolibérale de la santé publique » [French]
Nicolas Truong | Le Monde
Nancy Fraser : "Aux États-Unis, l'épidémie met en lumière les problèmes systémiques et structurels" [French]
Emmanuel Laurentin | France Culture
"L'austerity ci presenterà il conto". Intervista a Naomi Klein [Italian]
Angela Mauro | Huffington Post Italia
Class & Labour
Migrant Workers Can’t Afford a Lockdown
Sophie Cousins | Foreign Policy
Gig-Working Through the Apocalypse
Andrew Schwartz | The New Republic
USA: Hashtag #GeneralStrike [German]
Lukas Hermsmeier | WOZ
Io mangio da solo, il cibo a domicilio sulla pelle dei riders [Italian]
Miriam Carraretto | il manifesto
Social Toll
The Rise of Inequality in the Age of Crisis [Podcast]
Gabriel Zucman | Keen On
Public Health, Justice and COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold
James M. Doyle | The Crime Report
Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability
Shaun Ossei-Owusu | Boston Review
Democracy
Governance and Social Conflict in a Time of Pandemic
Cinzia Arruzza | Viewpoint Magazine
Our Crisis Fatigue Crisis and the Politics of Coronavirus
Matthew Flinders | Social Science Space
O combate à pandemia sob o signo da democracia [Portuguese]
Alfredo Alejandro Gugliano | Sul 21
Economic Policy
Don’t Count on China to Lift the Global Economy
Dexter Roberts | Foreign Affairs
Spain’s economy set to suffer most from coronavirus crisis
Daniel Dombey | Financial Times
Designing the fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Olivier Blanchard | Peterson Institute for International Economics
Netherlands, Blocking EU’s Covid19 Recovery Plan, has cost EU Countries $10bn in Lost Corporate Tax a Year
Mathew D. Rose | Brave New Europe
Covid-19 : faut-il annuler les dettes abyssales à venir des Etats ? [French]
Hubert de Vauplane | Le Grand Continent
Future
The Imaginary Crisis (and how we might quicken social and public imagination)
Geoff Mulgan | Demos Helsinki
Cenários pós-coronavírus: da ‘tecnologia civil’ à economia contributiva [Portuguese]
Instituto Humanitas Unisinos
La crisi che disvela: verso un nuovo Welfare europeo [Italian]
Christian Marazzi | Global Project
O que vem depois da crise? O Estado Social nos lembra o seu papel [Portuguese]
Gabriela Neves Delgado | JOTA Info
Academic
An Immediate COVID Pandemic Relief Plan
Robert C. Hockett | Cornell University
Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Alessandro Sforza | CESifo
Effective containment explains subexponential growth in recent confirmed COVID-19 cases in China
Benjamin F. Maier, Dirk Brockmann | Science
Beware of the second wave of COVID-19
Shunqing Xu, Yuanyuan Li | The Lancet
Public Heallth
New Harvard Study Links COVID Deaths and Air Pollution: An Interview with Study Author Dr. Francesca Dominici
Gretchen Goldman | Union of Concerned Scientists
Our Knowledge of Viruses Is Badly Inadequate
John P. Moore | Scientific American
Predictions are hard, especially about the coronavirus
Kelsey Piper | Vox
International
Viktor Orbán is Using the Coronavirus Emergency to Crush Minorities
Imre Szijarto | Jacobin
The Torture of a Coronavirus Test in Serbia
Nikola Milinkovic | Balkan Insight
Covid-19 leaves Kampala and Ugandan cities unrecognisable
Innocent Anguyo, Liz Storer | LSE Impact of Social Science
Ivan Krastev: "Die EU kann in dieser Form nicht überleben" [German]
Philipp Daum | Die Zeit
Public Sphere
Epidemic Philosophy
Warwick Anderson | Somatosphere
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
Vijay Prashad et al. | Independent Media Institute
The Cruelty of War: Repairing COVID-19 Through Healing and Care
Emily Yates-Doerr | Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Markus Gabriel zu Corona-Maßnahmen: „Wir sind nicht im Krieg“ [German]
Simone Wermelskirchen | Handelsblatt
Yayo Herrero: "El aislamiento ha sido el desencadenante para reconocer la interdependencia" [Spanish]
Pablo Gutiérrez de Álamo | La Marea
Tech
Coronavirus slowed Uber and Lyft — but not their big-money efforts to undo AB 5
Lauren Hepler | Protocol
The Wrong Way to Use Location Data in the Pandemic
Sharon Bradford Franklin | Slate
How's the Internet Doing? Depends Where You Look
Tara Lachapelle | Bloomberg
Zentrale vs. dezentrale Corona-Tracing-Apps - Welche Technologie bietet den besseren Datenschutz? [German]
Chris Köver | Netzpolitik