The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #13
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Context
From Cholera to Coronavirus [Podcast]
Richard Evans | Talking Politics
Global Shutdown: Visualizing Commuter Activity in the World's Cities
Iman Ghosh | Visual Capitalist
SARS-CoV-2: Don't Wait, Act
Jakob Simmank | Die Zeit
Os ecos da gripe de 1918 não param de crescer [Portuguese]
Isabel Salema | Público
Public Sphere
The importance of art now and beyond Covid-19
Kathleen Ebersohn | New Frame
The Architecture of Quarantine Is No Longer a Thing of the Past
Karrie Jacobs | Architect Magazine
Edgar Morin: «Ressentir plus que jamais la communauté de destins de toute l’humanité» [French]
Edgar Morin | Libération
Global coronavirus news consumption frequency 2020
Statista
Democracy
Surviving Covid-19 – and Modi
Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Discover Society
Sancta Corona, ora pro nobis
Maximilian Steinbeis | Verfassungs Blog
El Estado, las respuestas públicas y el día después de la pandemia [Spanish]
Daniel Chávez | CLACSO
Capitalism
This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It
Costas Lapavitsas | Jacobin
Markets v. Lives
Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski | Boston Review
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Rob Wallace et al. | Monthly Review
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Disaster Capitalism In Action. Here’s How the Left Can Respond
Ambi Colon | In These Times
O mundo está queimando, o capital também, e isso é bom – mas não para você [Portuguese]
Marília Moschkovich | Blog da Boitempo
Anthropocene
COVID-19 makes clear energy and water are public goods
Thea Riofrancos, Johanna Bozuwa | The Hill
Covid, conflict, climate – and our crying need to be more resilient
Dan Smith | openDemocracy
Academic
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Titan Alon et al. | Northwestern University
Epidemic preparedness in urban settings: new challenges and opportunities
Vernon J Lee et al. | The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Historical linkages: epidemic threat, economic risk, and xenophobia
Alexandre I R White | The Lancet
Class & Labour
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Karim Sariahmed | The New Inquiry
We are learning how much we rely on low-paid workers
Fintan O'Toole | The Irish Times
Economic Policy
The Coronavirus Is the Biggest Emerging Markets Crisis Ever
Adam Tooze | Foreign Policy
The Coronavirus Bailout [Podcast]
Mike Konczal | Belabored Podcast
Public Health
Cosa è successo a Bergamo, la città italiana più colpita dal virus [Italian]
Annalisa Camilli | Internazionale
Teaching the social determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic
David Ansari et al. | Somatosphere
Cross-country correlation analysis for research on COVID-19
Marianna Belloc et al. | VOX EU
Tech
China’s economy was hit hard by the pandemic. Its 5G ambitions could be crucial to its recovery
Che Pan | South China Morning Post
Covid-19, la «solidarietà digitale» non nelle mani dei monopoli privati [Italian]
Sandro Del Fattore, Cinzia Maiolini | il manifesto
International
“Nessuno si salva da solo”: l'America Latina e il Covid-19 [Italian]
Ariel Garcia | Sbilanciamoci
Bolsonaro aposta em uma guerra cultural do coronavírus [Portuguese]
Vincent Bevins | Carta Maior
Closed borders, no shops? Been there, done that, say east Europeans
Michael Kahn, Joanna Plucinska | Reuters
Social Toll
The Coronavirus Housing Crisis
Manuel B. Aalbers | Tribune
Why disease and xenophobia go hand in hand
David Fickling | ThePrint
The Communities Vulnerable to COVID-19 Deserve Better
Jamila Taylor | The Century Foundation