The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #30
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Social Toll
The Wire, the Police and Beyond
Amartya Sen | The Wire
Why the gendered political economy of COVID-19 matters
Merisa Thompson | Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
As Virus Spreads in Federal Prisons, People Inside Describe Chaos, While Families Are Left in the Dark
Liliana Segura | The Intercept
Il Golfo si libera dei migranti [Italian]
Chiara Cruciati | il manifesto
Class & Labour
How coronavirus threatens North Africa's informal workers
Max Gallien | Middle East Eye
Essential Now, Deportable Later
Felipe De La Hoz | The Baffler
The Front Line: Visualizing the Occupations with the Highest COVID-19 Risk
Marcus Lu | Visual Capitalist
The politics of naming Covid-19
The Week UK
«A l’air libre»: confinement et colère sociale, entretien avec Antonio Casilli [French]
Mediapart
International
Mogadishu in the time of COVID-19
Abdirahman Edle Ali et al. | Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier
COVID 19 in the life of elderly people in rural Russia: A crisis of confidence, backed up by fear
Konstantin Galkin | Somatosphere
The pandemic can be a catalyst for decolonisation in Africa
David Mwambari | Al Jazeera
The Coronavirus Loosens Lips in Hanoi
David Hutt | Foreign Policy
As corona casualties mount, Putin keeps a low profile
Marc Bennetts | Politico Europe
The politics of Covid-19: Europe’s rightwing leaders see opportunity in crisis
Marzena Zukowska | Red Pepper Magazine
Future
How the Economy Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Joseph E. Stiglitz et al. | Foreign Policy
Would COVID-19 Be the Turning Point in History for the Globalization Era? The Short-Term and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Globalization
Amin R. Yacoub, Mohamed El-Zomor | New York University
Nach der Pandemie: Deutschland als Öko-Staat – Historische Chance oder unkalkulierbares Risiko? [German]
Michael Fabricius | Die Welt
Capitalism
A spectre is haunting the West – the spectre of authoritarian capitalism
Laurie Macfarlane | openDemocracy
Covid ‐ 19 Capitalism, Neoliberal Debt & the Need for Sovereign Money»
Tim Di Muzio | Non Copyriot
Build Socialism Through the Post Office
Paris Marx | Jacobin
Eloi Laurent: “L'Etat providence, notre atout le plus précieux dans le siècle des crises écologiques” [French]
Mathieu Dejean | Les inrockuptibles
Frações burguesas na crise atual [Portuguese]
André Flores Penha Valle, Octávio F. Del Passo | A Terra é redonda
Academic
Will COVID-19 mark the end of an egalitarian NHS?
Sabrina Germain | European Journal of Risk Regulation
Not a Perfect Storm — Covid-19 and the Importance of Language
Allan M. Brandt, Alyssa Botelho | New England Journal of Medicine
Public Health
To End this Pandemic We’ll Need a Free Vaccine Worldwide
Gavin Yamey | TIME
Zain Rizvi | America Dissected: Coronavirus
Economy
Eurobonds (or coronabonds) would not be costly for Northern euro area countries
Matthias Weber | LSE Business Review
The Economics of being ‘Interesting’: Many kinds of exclusions
Farwa Sial | Developing Economics
Coercion to Self-Isolation - COVID-19 in Belarus
Olga Kevere | Visegrad Insight
Public Sphere
Of viruses and men: The dangerous pandemic in the social sciences
Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie | Eurozine
The Moral Crisis of the Pandemic
Jeremy Adelman | Project Syndicate
Ludivine Bantigny: «Le thème des “communs” apparaît central dans les réflexions sur le monde d’après» [French]
Ludivine Bantigny | Le Monde
Anthropocene
Coronavirus shows we are not at all prepared for the security threat of climate change
Kate Guy | The Conversation
Lessons learnt from Coronavirus and global environmental challenges
Amandine Orsini | OUPblog
Context
Timeline: Coronavirus in America
Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone
Ventilators Aren’t Going to Cure COVID-19. Here’s What They Can Do.
Caroline Chen | ProPublica
What past disasters can teach us about how to deal with covid-19
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
Covid-19 has changed my thinking on universal basic income
Stephen Bush | New Statesman
Corona in Afrika: Das Ebola der Reichen [German]
Andrea Böhm | Die Zeit
La città profilattica [Italian]
Luciano Marabello | Thomas project
Entre o individualismo e a solidariedade: um novo mundo em disputa [Portuguese]
Fabiana Amorim | Revista Movimento
Tech
The coronavirus crisis could fundamentally alter the internet
Annalee Newitz | New Scientist
Contact-tracing apps raise privacy concerns in Germany
Guy Chazan | Financial Times
La ingeniera española que lidera la ‘app’ europea de rastreo de contagios: “No será un estado de vigilancia” [Spanish]
Jordi Pérez Colomé | El País
"Las grandes tecnológicas serán las ganadoras de esta crisis y es un problema" [Spanish]
Esteban Hernández | El Confidencial
Datenschutz: Der digitale Corona-Pass [German]
Jonas Jansen | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Épidémie et technologies: «Sous les dorures de la start-up nation, un pouvoir coercitif» [French]
Rachel Knaebel | Basta Mag
Democracy
An End to Totalitarianism
Samuel Clowes Huneke | Boston Review
The State of Biopower in the Age of the Coronavirus
Joanna Wuest | The Philosophical Salon
Es la hora de lo impensable [Spanish]
Jorge Moruno | Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social
Fine della democrazia liberale? [Italian]
Leonardo Marchettoni | Il Rasoio di Occam
A sociedade cansada num estado de emergência em saúde pública [Portuguese]
Isabel de Santiago | Público