The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #31
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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The unabridged Part 31 (296 items) of the Reading List.
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Context
This isn't the first global pandemic, and it won't be the last. Here's what we've learned from 4 others throughout history
David Griffin | The Conversation
How the Covid-19 Pandemic May Reshape U.S. Hospital Design
Jeremy Hsu | Undark
How countries could recover from coronavirus, and lessons from an ancient drought [Podcast]
Sarah Crespi | Science Podcast
Muslime und die COVID-19-Pandemie: Pilgern in Zeiten von Corona [German]
Lena-Maria Möller, Serdar Kurnaz | Qantara
Lo strano silenzio prima della tempesta [Italian]
Franco «Bifo» Berardi | Not: NERO on Theory
Tech
A Post-COVID-19 Digital Bretton Woods
Rohinton P. Medhora, Taylor Owen | Project Syndicate
What nowcasts and unique datasets can tell tech about the coming economic shockwave
Hayden Field | Protocol
How well can tech trace the spread of the coronavirus? [Podcast]
Ross Anderson | Marketplace Tech
«L’urgence de la crise nous fait baisser la garde face à la surveillance numérique» [French]
Simon Blin | Libération
Codici salute e crediti sociali. Cosa ci racconta la Cina del futuro [Italian]
Simone Pieranni | il manifesto
Amazon und die Macht der puren Größe [German]
Thorsten Mumme | Der Tagesspiegel
Das grosse sozial-digitale Experiment [German]
Adrienne Fichter | Repubik
Capitalism
Thanks to Covid-19, Neoliberal Globalization Is Unravelling
Jeet Heer | The Nation
COVID-19 Shows Why We Must Socialize the Food System
Matt Huber | Jacobin
Collective Form of Action [Podcast]
David Harvey | Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
Coronavírus e os limites morais do capitalismo pelo viés de Hobbes à Marx [Portuguese]
Marcelo Vinicius Miranda Barros | Revista Movimento
Public Sphere
‘How Can I Keep My Family Safe?’: Worrying for my Clients on Rikers
Sarah Lustbader | New York Review of Books
Empty Frames
Patrick Nathan | Real Life
Of War, Collective Trauma, and the Coronavirus Crisis
Ryan Ellis | The MIT Press Reader
Illouz: la sociedad moderna se enfrenta a "un estado de miedo único" [Spanish]
Joan Mas | EFE Noticias
Peter Pomerantsev: "Die massenhafte Verbreitung von Bullshit ist das Problem" [German]
Dirk Peitz | Die Zeit
Und nun zum Thema Afrika: Alles sehr schlimm [German]
Julian Hilgers | Übermedien
«Maschere E Mascherine» [Italian]
Roberto Pecchioli | Inchiostronero
Democracy
Democracy and the Great Pestilence
John Keane | Eurozine
The Inexorable Rise of the Pandemic State? Second-Guessing the long-term political repercussions of COVID 19
Brendan Flynn | Moore Institute
COVID-19 in the Age of Bolsonaro
Camila Valle, Aldo Cordeiro Sauda | New Politics
PanDemocracia [Spanish]
Tiago Pereira, Miguel Ricou | Público
Economy
COVID-19 and the Future of Global Trade [Podcast]
Benjamin Jensen | War on the Rocks
La peor crisis desde la Gran Depresión [Spanish]
Juan Pedro Velázquez-Gaztelu | Alternativas Economicas
Le mauvais procès fait à la mondialisation [French]
Jean Tirole | Les Echos
Joseph Stiglitz: «Les Américains vont subir des pertes dévastatrices de revenus» [French]
Fabrice Nodé-Langlois | Le Figaro
Anthropocene
Fossil fuels are propelling Covid-19—and the next pandemic
On Barak | Quartz
Le coronavirus met le Green Deal européen à l’épreuve [French]
Virginie Malingre | Le Monde
Future
Returning to the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19
Gus Woody | RS21
Seguiamo il modello tedesco e creiamo una banca nazionale di sviluppo [Italian]
Mario Lettieri, Paolo Raimondi | Linkiesta
Nicht jede Krise ist eine Chance [German]
Klaus Dörre | Jacobin
Class & Labour
We are all affected, but not equally: Migrant domestic workers in pandemic times
Lise Widding, Lena Nare | Discover Society
COVID-19 Proves San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Is A Health Emergency
Ray Levy-Uyeda | Talk Poverty
O coronavírus e o direito à cidade dos pobres [Portuguese]
César Simoni | CartaCapital
International
South Africa’s one-sided lockdown: coercing the poor, coddling the rich?
Seán Muller | Africa is a Country
Is Coronavirus Ushering in a New World Order? [Podcast]
Barbara Ehrenreich, Mike Davis | Start Making Sense
How Ecuador Descended into COVID-19 Chaos
Guillaume Long | CEPR
Sweeping powers and a transition on ice: Pandemic politics in Ethiopia
Yoseph Badwaza | African Arguments
Origem do coronavírus volta ao centro da guerra fria entre EUA e China [Portuguese]
Igor Gielow | Folha de S.Paulo
Public Health
The lockdowns worked—but what comes next?
Kai Kupferschmidt | Science
To start reopening shuttered nations, we need this blood test
Nadia Drake | National Geographic
La politica economica delle tre R per fronteggiare la crisi [Italian]
Paolo Zagami | Formiche
Social Toll
Politicising depression during a pandemic
Sian Bradley | Verso Books
The pandemic recasts gender inequality
Cathy Young | The Boston Globe
Latin American Countries Quarantine Men and Women Separately, Risking Trans People's Lives
Rajvi Desai | The Swaddle
COVID-19 and Disposable Migrant Workers
Raluca Bejan | Verfassungsblog