The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #40
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Academic
Thoughts about Public Space During Covid‐19 Pandemic
Setha Low Alan Smart | AnthroSource
Innovation During a Crisis: Evidence from Covid-19
Kevin Bryan et al. | University of Toronto
Fake news in the time of environmental disaster: Preparing framework for COVID-19
Syeda Saadia Azim et al. | SocArXiv
COVID-19 and emergency eLearning: Consequences of the securitization of higher education for post-pandemic pedagogy
Michael P. A. Murphy | Contemporary Security Policy
Anthropocene
Clean air in Europe during lockdown ‘leads to 11,000 fewer deaths’
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian
Don’t Leave America’s Post-Pandemic Energy Policy to Chance
Liam Denning | Bloomberg
Coronavirus Recovery Needs a Green New Deal
Eleanor Salter | Tribune Magazine
"Coronavírus é ultimato para mudarmos a relação com a terra", afirma Leonardo Boff [Portuguese]
Cristiane Sampaio | Brasil de Fato
Capitalism
Santiago López Petit: Coronavirus as theatre of truth
Julius Gavroche | Autonomies
Disaster capitalism: Coronavirus crisis brings bailouts, tax breaks and lax environmental rules to oilsands
Anna Stanley | The Conversation
Chomsky: COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a “Failed State”
C.J. Polychroniou | Truthout
Déconfinement: la bourse ou la vie? [French]
Simon Blin, Thibaut Sardier | Libération
Class & Labour
International Labor Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic
Manoj Dias-Abey | Boston Review
Socialists Should Side With Workers — Not the Chinese or American Ruling Class
Eli Friedman | Jacobin
The Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America
Harold Meyerson et al. | The American Prospect
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Kate Aronoff | The New Republic
Häusliches Lernen: Die Ungleichheit wächst [German]
Hanna Dumont | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fremde Federn: Kurzarbeit, Drogenmärkte, Homeoffice [German]
Dirk Liesemer | Makronom
Context
The Misinformation Being Used to Pressure Us Into Re-Opening the Economy
Nancy LeTourneau | Washington Monthly
A Dissidência No Império Biopolítico Do Fim [Portuguese]
Luís Carneiro | PUNKTO
Geschichte der Seuchen: „Die Pest war eher ein Gleichmacher“ [German]
Morgane Llanque | Enorm
Democracy
Cracks in India’s Constitutional Framework
Karan Gupta | Verfassungsblog
Where Is the Local News About COVID-19?
Jan-Werner Mueller | Project Syndicate
The coronavirus revealed what was already broken in America
Sean Illing | Vox
Zweierlei Leninismus – wie sich unter Corona die Fronten von links und rechts aufweichen und verwirren [German]
Robert Misik | Neue Zürcher Zeitung
O neofascista Bolsonaro diante da pandemia [Portuguese]
Michael Löwy | Blog da Boitempo
Economy
Irrational Expectations
Geoff Mann | Viewpoint Magazine
Cancel the Rent' Could Be Just the Beginning
Kriston Capps | CityLab
Die arabischen Ökonomien und die Corona-Krise: Schutz vor dem perfekten Sturm im Nahen Osten [German]
Bassem Awadallah, Adeel Malik | Qantara
Alternativas económicas frente a la pandemia [Spanish]
Vicenç Navarro | Público
Future
Konsequenzen der Corona-Krise - Das globale Panikorchester [German]
Michael Bröning | Cicero
Ceruti: «Siamo più fragili, serve più umanità» [Italian]
Marco Roncalli | Avvenire
International
How Italy’s ‘Little China’ dodged the coronavirus
Hannah Roberts | Politico Europe
Can Eritrea's government survive the coronavirus?
Abraham T Zere | Al Jazeera
Comparing the US’ and China’s Response to Covid-19
Dilip Hiro | The Nation
Brasilien: Rassismus in der Pandemie [German]
Jessé Souza | Blätter
Public Health
COVID-19 Immunity Testing
Françoise Baylis, Natalie Kofler | ISSUES in Science and Technology
Covid-19 Vaccine: A Global Call for Equitable Access to Medicines
Pranjal Mishra | LSE Human Rights
Genetic Engineering Could Make a COVID-19 Vaccine in Months Rather Than Years
Charles Schmidt | Scientific American Magazine
The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing
Ed Yong | The Atlantic
Public Sphere
Eco-fascism: The Rhetoric of the Virus
Jay Fraser | Non Copyriot
State of Emergency? Bring It On!
Todd McGowan | The Philosophical Salon
Orhan Pamuk über Corona und Pandemien [German]
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sul vero e sul falso [Italian]
Giorgio Agamben | Quodlibet
Social Toll
Fear and solidarity
Paul Fargues | Africa is a Country
Pandemic Borders
Letizia Palumbo | openDemocracy
Survey: More than 30 percent of Americans have witnessed COVID-19 bias against Asians
Alex Ellerbeck | Center for Public Integrity
A maior corrida às armas desde a Guerra Fria [Portuguese]
Daniel Heinrich | Outras Palavras
Tech
Welcome back to the office. This ring will track your location and temperature.
Lauren Hepler | Protocol
Covid-19, Google, and the future of Toronto’s Waterfront
Socialist Project
Spyware Firms Make Beeline for India, Products to Track COVID-19 Patients Raise Privacy Concerns
Joel Schectman | The Wire