The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #28
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
The searchable archive (5300 items).
The unabridged Part 28 (198 items) of the Reading List.
The podcasts.
The main weekly editions.
Democracy
On the Securitization of COVID-19
John Heathershaw | Pandemipolitics
The Universal Right to Breathe
Achille Mbembe | Critical Inquiry
Public Participation as a Privilege for the Immune?
Sam Hull | Law and Political Economy
Coronationalism?
Umut Ozkirimli | openDemocracy
Corona und Demokratie [German]
Paul Katzenberger | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Public Health
Cuba: from AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
Don Fitz | Monthly Review
The Interwoven Threads of Inequality and Health
Nancy Krieger | The New Yorker
The world needs a new, depoliticised WHO
Izabella Kaminska | Financial Times
International
COVID-19: A Bigger Challenge to the Indian Healthcare System
Aru Bhardwaj | Developing Economics
COVID-19 in El Salvador: safeguarding public health or restricting human rights?
Amaral Arévalo, Clare Wenham | LSE Latin America and Caribbean
Socialism v. corona-capitalism in the Philippines
No Borders
La resaca del Covid-19, ¿la nueva ‘happy hour’ de los democristianos? [Spanish]
Nacho Alarcón | El Confidencial
Coronavírus na China: uma análise sociológica preliminar [Portuguese]
Markus Pohlmann | JOTA
Capitalism
The post-pandemic slump
Michael Roberts | Michael Roberts Blog
Raoul Vaneigem: Life against capital and its pandemics
Julius Gavroche | Autonomies
Etats-Unis et au-delà. «Perspectives socialistes: le coronavirus et la présente crise» [French]
Sam Gindin | A l'encontre
Economy
Now is the time for better basic income grants
Duma Gqubule | New Frame
« Si on nationalise, ne faut-il pas aller vers la démocratie économique ? » - Entretien avec François Morin [French]
William Bouchardon | Le Vent Se Lève
Coronavirus : face à une telle crise, il faut un revenu universel [French]
Jean-Eric Hyafil | Libération
Tech
Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic
Andrew Roth et al. | The Guardian
Is Amazon approaching its breaking point in the Covid-19 crisis?
Marc Bain | Quartz
We Should Have a Democratic Debate About Trade-Offs Between Public Safety and Privacy
Nicole Aschoff | Jacobin
Big data e Coronavirus: verso una nuova cittadinanza? [Italian]
Mattia Brambilla | Frammenti Rivista
Academic
Making Sense of the Global Coronavirus Data: The Role of Testing Rates in Understanding the Pandemic and Our Exit Strategy
Rahul Potluri, Deepthi Lavu | ACALM Big Data Research Group
Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Betty Pfefferbaum, Carol S. North | New England Journal of Medicine
Anthropocene
We Need to Rethink Our Food System to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Laura Spinney | TIME
Yet Another Consequence of the Pandemic: More Plastic Waste
Matt Simon | WIRED
Las últimas grandes crisis económicas no ayudaron a luchar contra la crisis climática [Spanish]
Alejandro Tena | Público
Social Toll
Caring in times of COVID-19
Patrícia Ferreira | Somatosphere
Politics of abandonment
Bilgin Ayata, Artemis Fyssa | Eurozine
From Abuse to Jobs, the Crisis Will Burden Women More Than Men
Ishani Roy | The Wire
How COVID-19 is straining hospice care
Grace Birnstengel | PBS
I rom dell’Europa orientale soli davanti al coronavirus [Italian]
Internazionale
Class & Labour
Interview: Noam Chomsky on How Bosses Are Making Coronavirus ‘Worse, for Their Benefit’
Chris Brooks | Labor Notes
„Die Corona-Krise spaltet die sozialen Milieus neu“ [German]
Christoph David Piorkowski | Der Tagesspiegel
Context
How to Understand COVID 19 [Podcast]
Katherine Furman | Philosophical Disquisitions
When viruses shatter limits
Shrese | Uneven Earth
Old vaccines being tested against the new coronavirus
Los Angeles Times
Future
The coronavirus crisis has sounded the death knell for liberal globalisation
Maurice Glasman | New Statesman
Coronavirus : les Français font des relocalisations la priorité de l'après-crise [French]
Pierre-alain Furbury | Les Echos
Covid-19 : « Ne nous attendons pas à un après ressemblant à une aube radieuse » [French]
Vincent Edin | Usbek & Rica
Optimierung, Preparedness, Priorisierung [German]
Ulrich Bröckling | Soziopolis
Public Sphere
Losurdo, Mouffe e Mbembe: Para entender o Brasil [Portuguese]
Jucemir de Oliveira Vidal | Justificando
Sozialökonomischer Essay - Die Welt von Heute [German]
Frank Fehlberg | der Freitag