The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #21
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Economic Policy
Coronavirus is igniting a devastating crisis for highly indebted companies
Bob Diamond, Ty Wallach | Fortune
The European Stability Mechanism is a False Solution to a Real European Problem
Marco Dani, Agustín José Menendez | Verfassungsblog
There’s a time bomb in China’s economy. Coronavirus has lit the fuse
Cary Huang | South China Morning Post
International
Can India Contain the Pandemic?
Smarajit Jana | Scientific American Magazine
Countries follow consumers in stockpiling food
Emiko Terazono | Financial Times
Using the virus to bash Beijing could trigger a new cold war
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
Corona in Lateinamerika: "Das Virus hat ein Gefühl der Gleichheit geschaffen" [German]
Jens Glüsing, Marian Blasberg | Der Spiegel
Future
Alain Badiou: Das dritte Leben des Kommunismus [German]
Jürg Altwegg | FAZ
Perché il coronavirus segnerà la fine dei giornali di carta [Italian]
Marco Bardazzi | Start Magazine
Public Health
The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
Yasmeen Abutaleb | Washington Post
Big Tobacco Joins Race for Coronavirus Vaccine
Saabira Chaudhuri and Denise Roland | The Wall Street Journal
A Revolta da Vacina e os limites do Estado em crises sanitárias [Portuguese]
João Paulo Charleaux | Nexo Jornal
Capitalism
A crisis like no other [Podcast]
Adam Tooze | Politics Theory Other
Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket
Rob Larson | Jacobin
Coronavirus Brutally Exposes the Fallacies Underlying Neoclassical Economics and Globalisation
Steve Keen | Brave New Europe
Do keynesianismo de coronavírus à antiguerra permanente [Portuguese]
Victor Marques | Autonomia Literária
Class & Labour
Who Do We Expect to Sacrifice?
Lili Loofbourow | Slate
U.S. gig and informal workers strike demanding better protection during COVID-19 outbreak
Monthly Review
«Les ouvriers de la logistique sont devenus les “caryatides du monde moderne”» [French]
Lucie Delaporte | Mediapart
Tech
Airbnb has been rocked by COVID-19. Do we really want to see it recover?
James Muldoon | openDemocracy
Enlisting tech to fight coronavirus sparks surveillance fears
Niv Elis | The Hill
Emergenza Covid-19 e misure tech: i progetti internazionali, le soluzioni adottate, a che punto siamo in Italia e le domande da porsi [Italian]
Carola Frediani | Valigia Blu
Academic
Covid-19 and Health Care’s Digital Revolution
Sirina Keesara et al. | New England Journal of Medicine
Spatial variability in the risk of death from COVID-19 in Italy, 2020
Kenji Mizumoto et al. | medRxiv
Public Sphere
‘Corona Maman’: A Paris Clinic’s First Covid-19 Delivery
Ariane Chang | New York Review of Books
Ai Weiwei: “El capitalismo ha llegado a su fin” [Spanish]
Isolda Morillo | El País
Naomi Oreskes: "Bolsonaro é "mercador da dúvida" no coronavírus" [Portuguese]
André Barrocal | CartaCapital
Josep Ramoneda: "Con las referencias a la guerra se abre el camino a un refuerzo de las posiciones autoritarias" [Spanish]
Neus Tomàs | El Diario
Anthropocene
What the Coronavirus Pandemic Can Teach Us About the Climate Emergency
Charles Komanoff, Christopher Ketcham | The Intercept
Coronavirus : la dégradation de la biodiversité en question [French]
Perrine Mouterde | Le Monde
Context
America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology
Joshua Kendall | TIME
The perils of knowledge in a pandemic
Massimo Pigliucci | IAI TV
Trouble dans le présentisme : le temps du Covid-19 [French]
François Hartog | AOC media
Democracy
Policing the pandemic: “security” for whom?
Iida Käyhkö, Laura Schack | ROAR Magazine
Die biopolitische Krise [German]
Gero von Randow | Die Zeit
Pandemic Dystopias: Biopolitical Emergency and Social Resistance
George Sotiropoulos, Gene Ray | Void Network
Social Toll
As Coronavirus Cases Rise, Navajo Nation Tries To Get Ahead Of Pandemic
Laurel Morales | NPR
Sexarbeiterin über Corona-Kontaktsperre: Bedrohte Kultur der Berührung [German]
Jan Pfaff, Antje Lang-Lendorff | Taz
U.S. agriculture: Can it handle coronavirus, labor shortages and panic buying?
Brent Schrotenboer | USA Today