The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #34
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Context
Ill Will. Throughout history, pandemics have been structured by racism
Edna Bonhomme | The Baffler
Numbering the Dead
Shannon Pufahl | NYRB Daily
Pandemic Data Could Be Deadly for the Old
Cathy O'Neil | Bloomberg
Corona-Pandemie - „Es kommt auch darauf an, wie die Menschen sterben“ [German]
Moritz Gathmann | Cicero
Comment reconstruire un monde post-viral? [French]
Tammy Gan | UP Magazine
Nuove riflessioni [Italian]
Giorgio Agamben | Quodlibet
Democracy
Coronavirus tests Germans’ devotion to privacy
Eduard Saakashvili | Coda Story
El mejor antídoto contra los patógenos, la libertad [Spanish]
Alfonso Armada | Frontera Digital
Pandemia e diritti LGBT+ [Italian]
Stefano Osella | Scenari
Economy
The coronavirus recession and economic inequality: A roadmap to recovery and long-term structural change
Heather Boushey | Equitable Growth
The merits of Spain’s proposed recovery fund are irrefutable
Martin Sandbu | Financial Times
Wirtschaftliche Solidarität - Lebenselixier oder Lebenslüge? [Podcast - German]
Caspar Dohmen | Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Future
The Oil Industry Is Dying Right Now. Don’t Resuscitate It.
Chris Saltmarsh | Jacobin
COVID-19: Partire dalle piccole cose per arrivare alle grandi [Italian]
Cosimo Schinaia | Psychiaty online
Warum die Coronakrise keine Revolution ist [German]
Hannes Soltau | Tagesspiegel
A redescoberta do coletivo – implicações para o pós-pandemia [Portuguese]
Helena Lopes | Público
International
How the Indian state of Kerala flattened the coronavirus curve
Oommen C Kurian | The Guardian
Hondurans Protest as Elites Attempt to Use Pandemic to Enrich Themselves
Karen Spring, Judy Ancel | Inequality.org
Frankreich: Was bleibt von Macron nach der Coronakrise? [German]
Thomas Hanke | Handelsblatt
Coronavirus Slowakei: Tausende von Roma in Quarantäne [German]
Ivo Mijnssen, Wien | NZZ
Dépistage à Jérusalem-Est: «Il aura fallu saisir la Cour suprême» [French]
Guillaume Gendron | Libération
Coronavirus: la Suède défend les mérites de son «confinement volontaire» [French]
Frédéric Faux | Le Figaro
Brasil segue EUA e deixa de apoiar medida da ONU de cooperação contra coronavírus [Portuguese]
Lucas Alonso | Folha de S.Paulo
Public Health
Many covid-19 survivors will be left traumatized by their ICU experience
Charlotte Jee | MIT Technology Review
Feud over Stanford coronavirus study: ‘The authors owe us all an apology’
Lisa M. Krieger | The Mercury News
Andrew Lakoff: «Les maladies infectieuses ont fait l’objet de mesures de préparation à la fin des années 1990» [French]
Marc-Olivier Bherer | Le Monde
Já teríamos uma vacina para a COVID 19 sob o socialismo? [Portuguese]
Vanessa A. Bee | Carta Maior
Academic
Agriculture, transportation, and the COVID‐19 crisis
Richard Gray | Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic expanding in sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for COVID-19 in people living with HIV
Paul K. Drain, Nigel Garrett | E-Clinical Medicine
Geopolítica e diplomacia em tempos de Covid-19: Brasil e China no limiar de um contencioso [Portuguese]
Pablo Ibañez | Espaço e Economia
Tech
Global Examples of COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies [PDF]
Sanna Rimpiläinen et al. | Digital Health and Care Institute
Urban tech is a $65 billion industry. Here’s how COVID-19 could upend it
Richard Florida et al. | Fast Company
Is this the end of Airbnb?
James Temperton | WIRED
Contact-tracing apps enjoy limited success amid privacy fears
Al Jazeera
Pós-crise da Covid-19: consolidação da era das plataformas digitais e e-commerce? [Portuguese]
Humberto Cunha Dos Santos | JOTA
Social Toll
How the coronavirus is surfacing America’s deep-seated anti-Asian biases
Li Zhou | Vox
Children's privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus
Jacquelyn Burkell | The Conversation
How home working leaves deaf people out of the loop during coronavirus
Saba Salman | The Guardian
Anthropocene
Here's our chance to rewrite the climate story
Amandine Denis-Ryan | Monash Lens
Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse.
Jimmy Tobias, Chris D’Angelo | HuffPost
Class & Labour
Corona: A View from Below
Fabio Braun Carrasco | Focus on the Global South
The green gig economy: precarious workers are on the frontline of climate change fight
Benjamin Neimark | The Conversation
Inequality and Poverty Were Destroying America Well Before Covid-19
Liz Theoharis | The Nation
L'économie de guerre aux temps du coronavirus: le retour de la valeur d'usage? [French]
Anton Jäger | Le Grand Continent
O COVID-19 e o mundo do trabalho brasileiro: o que os dados pré-crise nos alertavam e para que cenário caminhamos [Portuguese]
José Raimundo Trindade | DMT – Democracia e Mundo do Trabalho em Debate
Capitalism
Can a Pandemic Defeat the Politics of Austerity?
Sven Steinmo, Mark Blyth | Foreign Affairs
Solidaridad europea: demasiado poca o absolutamente demasiada [Spanish]
Wolfgang Streeck | El Salto
Corona-Pandemie: Menschenopfer für den Kapitalismus [German]
Thomas Assheuer | Die Zeit
Na economia, o neoliberalismo à brasileira é uma ofensa à teoria econômica. Entrevista especial com Róber Iturriet Avila [Portuguese]
Ricardo Machado | Instituto Humanitas Unisinos
Public Sphere
On the Use and Abuse of St. Francis for Quarantine Life: The Case of Giorgio Agamben
Stephen M. Metzger | Church Life Journal
Air pollution, COVID-19 and death: The perils of bypassing peer review
Mark Goldberg | The Conversation
Corona-Kunst: Interview mit Wolfgang Tillmans [German]
Catrin Lorch | Süddeutsche Zeitung
La Real Academia busca una definición para el coronavirus [Spanish]
Jesús Ruiz Mantilla | El País
Storie virali. La tirannia della casa [Italian]
Moreno Di Marco, Marta Cimatti | Treccani