The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #19
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Capitalism
Will coronavirus signal the end of capitalism?
Paul Mason | Al Jazeera
Social Reproduction and the Pandemic, with Tithi Bhattacharya
Sarah Jaffe | Dissent
The Combined and Uneven Geography of COVID-19, or on Law, Capitalism and Disease
Ntina Tzouvala | Opinio Juris
Généalogie d’une alternative néolibérale [French]
Eric Fassin | Libération
Oliver Nachtwey: «Die Härte, mit der uns die Krise trifft, ist den Fehlentwicklungen der letzten 30 Jahre geschuldet» [German]
Daniel Ryser, Olivier Würgler | Repubik
Las políticas económicas neoliberales matan. Hay que cambiarlas [Spanish]
Vicenç Navarro | Público
Tech
YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments
Kari Paul | The Guardian
AI Startups Cut Staff as Coronavirus Slams Economy
John McCormick | The Wall Street Journal
Connective Tissues. Pandemics debunk the notion of seamless automation
Anna Reser | Real Life
Les opérateurs télécoms résistent bien à la crise sanitaire [French]
Sébastien Dumoulin | Les Echos
Economic Policy
A progressive European wealth tax to fund the European COVID response
Camille Landais et al. | VOX EU
It Sure Looks Like Some Countries Are Playing Games With Their Coronavirus Stats
Joshua Keating | Slate
The COVID-19 Crisis Demands Bold, Progressive Economic Ideas
Jeffrey C. Isaac | Public Seminar
A widening data divide: COVID-19 and the Global South
Stefania Milan | openDemocracy
Future
Imaginer les gestes-barrières contre le retour à la production d’avant-crise [French]
Bruno Latour | AOC
Pandemia e o futuro das cidades [Portuguese]
Raquel Rolnik | Raquel Rolnik Blogs
Effondrement, décroissance, relocalisation… Comment la gauche pense l’après-coronavirus [French]
Abel Mestre | Le Monde
Die Corona-Krise: eine Chance für progressive Politik? [German]
Conny Reuter | Vorwärts
Academic
COVID-19, patents and the never-ending tension between proprietary rights and the protection of public health
Enrico Bonadio, Andrea Baldini | European Journal of Risk Regulation
The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption and Policies to Increase Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers
Jason Abaluck et al. | Yale School of Management
Facemask shortage and the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak: Reflections on public health measures
Huai-liang Wu et al. | Eclinical Medicine
Public Sphere
To the point: how we talk about COVID-19 [Podcast]
Nick Enfield | Sydney Ideas
Days Without Name: On Time in the Time of Coronavirus
Heidi Pitlor | Literary Hub
Il virus? La verità è che per noi cambierà l’intera esistenza [Italian]
Olga Tokarczuk | Corriere della Sera
La sfida del Covid-19 alle scienze umane. Alcune piste di riflessione [Italian]
Emanuele Leonardi | Le parole e le cose
Social Toll
Coronavirus Restrictions Stoke Tensions in Lock-ups Across U.S.
Keri Blakinger | The Marshall Project
El trabajo sexual en tiempos de pandemia [Spanish]
Rommy Arce | El Salto
Der Soziologe Hartmut Rosa sagt: «Eine Spaltung zwischen den Generationen liegt im Bereich des Möglichen» [German]
Marie-Joëlle Eschmann | NZZ
A scuola a distanza, in contatto [Italian]
Enrico Manera | Doppiozero
Der Gender-Effekt von Corona: Feminismus auf dem Abstellgleis [German]
Petra Stuiber | Der Standard
Class & Labour
In Epidemics, the Wealthy Have Always Fled
Allison C. Meier | Daily Jstor
«Social distancing» als Klassenfrage [Podcast - German]
Demoradio
Pandemic, Precarity and the Demands of the Left
Richard Gunn, Adrian Wilding | Bella Caledonia
Context
New Pathogen, Old Politics
Alex de Waal | Boston Review
Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome
Jonathan Corum | The New York Times
The campaign to promote a mysterious Soviet-era drug as a coronavirus miracle cure
Isobel Cockerell | Coda Story
Atemschutzmasken: Im Angesicht des Virus [German]
Kai Marchal | Zeit Online
Sul terrore a mezzo stampa: «Il virus è nell'aria», un titolo che farà molti danni [Italian]
Giap
Democracy
Data protection in times of COVID-19: the risks of surveillance in Brazil
Clara Iglesias Keller, Jane R. G. Pereira | Internet Policy Review
Orbán's political product [Hu]
Réka Kinga Papp | Eurozine
Yale-Professor: Jetzt kann sich Donald Trump alles erlauben [German]
Sebastian Moll | Berliner Zeitung
Public Health
Could social care become the new frontline in the coronavirus pandemic?
George Grylls | New Statesman
Brasil terá falta de leitos mesmo em cenário mais otimista [Portuguese]
Ricardo Balthazar | Folha de S.Paulo
Há um modelo português de resposta à pandemia de covid-19? [Portuguese]
Helena Freitas | Público
Corona-Pandemie: Wie glaubwürdig ist Chinas Statistik? [German]
Friederike Böge | Faz
International
Confucianism Isn't Helping South Korea Beat the Coronavirus
S. Nathan Park | Foreign Policy
The logic of Ghana's lockdown: why coronavirus demands special attention
Nana Kofi Quakyi | The Conversation
China’s Coming Upheaval: Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping
Minxin Pei | Foreign Affairs
Il Covid-19 è arrivato in Africa. Le paure del continente e il ruolo dell'Unione europea [Italian]
Camilla Palla | I-Com
Sonderweg in der Corona-Krise: Schweden vor dem Sturm [German]
Matthias Hannemann | Faz