The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #35
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Public Health
Covid-19 and the power of public health
Jonathan Cohen | BMJ Opinion
The problem of modelling: Public policy and the coronavirus
Paul Collier | The Times Literary Supplement
Exporting the Italian Model to Fight COVID-19
Fernanda G. Nicola | The Regulatory Review
“For Now, We Wait”: Postponing Cancer Surgery During the Coronavirus Crisis
Alessandra Colaianni | The New Yorker
Approaches to Covid-19 Vaccines and Antivirals [Podcast]
Eric J. Rubin et al. | New England Journal of Medicine
Des médecins pointent les limites de la télémédecine [French]
Marie-Cécile Renault | Le Figaro
Svezia e Corea: due modelli [Italian]
Simone D'Alessandro, Federico Pianzola | Doppiozero
Social Toll
‘The French Are Very Bad at Picking Asparagus.’ Virus Imperils European Farming.
Nick Kostov et al. | The Wall Street Journal
Sex workers’ response to the pandemic proves they aren’t society’s victims
Alejandra Ortiz | openDemocracy
Migración forzada y la necropolítica del Covid-19 [Spanish]
Ariadna Estévez | Nexos
Non dobbiamo chiedere che le scuole riaprano per le mamme [Italian]
Giusi Marchetta | il Libraio
A dupla cegueira para lidar com a pandemia nas favelas [Portuguese]
Marcelo Baumann Burgos, Marat Troina | Le Monde diplomatique Brasil
Class & Labour
What coronavirus is doing to the meat industry—and its workers
Marion Nestle | Food Politics
Racial inequality in Britain found a risk factor for Covid-19
Caelainn Barr | The Guardian
How the Coronavirus Crisis Is Redefining Jobs
Ravin Jesuthasan et al. | Harvard Business Review
Kleinbürgerliche Systemrelevanz (neues deutschland) [German]
Roberto J. De Lapuente | Neues Deutschland
Tech
Airbnb and Covid-19: Capturing the Value of the Crisis
Jelke Bosma | Platform Labor
Delivery robots move medical supplies to help with COVID-19 response
Timothy B. Lee | Ars Technica
Facebook’s name-and-shame coronavirus groups are hellish
Jack Needham | WIRED UK
Drones Become Part of Local U.S. Responses to COVID-19
Jed Pressgrove | Government Technology
"Stopp Corona": Gute Noten von Datenschützern - App wird Open Source [German]
Barbara Steinbrenner | Die Presse
Economy
Coronavirus and the stock market: science cannot predict the outcome, but does it matter?
Nicolas Martelin, Jamie Ness | LSE
Is a key figure that shapes our economy useless after coronavirus?
James Moore | The Independent
Covid-19 y arbitraje inversor-Estado: ¿hacia la tormenta perfecta? [Spanish]
Magdalena Bas Vilizzio | La Diaria
Anthropocene
Is Our War with the Environment Leading to Pandemics?
Fiona Armstrong et al. | Social Science Space
The COVID Crisis Is Reinforcing the Hunger Industrial Complex
Peter Sterling | The MIT Press Reader
Will lack of food make COVID-19 a worse crisis in Africa?
Chris Hufstader | Oxfam
COVID-19: cómo se liga la pandemia con el abuso contra la naturaleza [Spanish]
Antonio Paz Cardona, Mongabay Latam | Animal Politico
Capitalism
The Global Economy, Climate Change, and Covid 19 [Podcast]
Richard Walker | KPFA
Prospects for Left Politics in the United States amid Coronavirus and Capitalist Crisis
Sharryn Kasmir | FocaalBlog
Up or Out: Migration and Rated Governance
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | Law and Political Economy
The Left Must Seize This Moment, or Others Will
Alfredo Saad-Filho | Jacobin
COVID-19 Has Demolished A Central Myth Of Capitalism
Nora Loreto | Passage
Coronavírus e o fracasso do neoliberalismo [Portuguese]
Mozart Grisi Correia Pontes | Brasil de Fato
Context
Why coronavirus has deepened the crisis of the conservative mind
Paul Mason | New Statesman
The Three Ways of Looking at the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Quinn Slobodian | Transnational Institute
Hartmut Rosa : «Nous ne vivons pas l’utopie de la décélération» [French]
Anastasia Vécrin | Libération
Wir werden zu "Chinesen": Wie Corona unsere Utopien zerstört [German]
Stefan Zweifel | NZZ
A crise da subjectividade [Portuguese]
José Gil | Público
Academic
The Third and Fatal Shock: How Pandemic Killed the Millennial Paradigm
Alasdair S. Roberts | University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Invisible Hand — Medical Care during the Pandemic
Michelle M. Kittleson | New England Journal of Medicine
Future
The long path to a post-pandemic reality [Podcast]
Wade Roush | Technology Review
The Coronavirus New Normal Has Only Started To Arrive
Lambert Strether | Naked Capitalism
Lo spazio pubblico da riconquistare dopo la reclusione domestica [Italian]
Ilaria Agostini | il manifesto
International
The World Order Is Broken. The Coronavirus Proves It.
Kate Aronoff | The New Republic
Italy, democracy and COVID-19
Francesco Martone | P2P Foundation
U.S. Airstrikes Hit All-Time High as Coronavirus Spreads in Somalia
Nick Turse | The Intercept
The Nordics and COVID-19: Together or Apart?
Pia Hansson | Danish Institute for International Studies
El desprecio a los deportados de Estados Unidos [Spanish]
Elsa Coronado | Plaza Pública
La pandemia en los confines de Europa: “el virus le da al poder sensación de impunidad” [Spanish]
Bernardo Álvarez | Nortes
«Die Unterschiede werden klein sein» [German]
Urs Gehriger | Weltwoche
Democracy
Protesting Without Gathering, Tenant Organizers Get Creative
Conor Dougherty | The New York Times
Privacidade na pandemia: por que adiar a LGPD é um erro? [Portuguese]
Anderson Schreiber | JOTA
Public Sphere
Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus [Podcast]
Perry Kulper | Architecture Talk
Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets
Lawrence Joseph | Literary Hub
Are we all Kantians now? The Covid-19 effect on moral philosophy
Joe Humphreys | The Irish Times
Apocalipsis, esquizofrenia y comunidad [Spanish]
Álvaro San Román Gómez | LaU
La epidemia es el capitalismo [Spanish]
Iban Zaldua | CTXT
Rückkehr ins Kulturleben: Nachts im Museum? [German]
Catrin Lorch | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Etienne Balibar : « L’histoire ne continuera pas comme avant » [French]
Jean Birnbaum | Le Monde
The newspaper Weltwoche is owned by a Swiss populist politician. Be careful with their articles, they are well written with a hidden propaganda.