The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #33
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Democracy
Let’s Decolonize the Coronavirus
Andrea Filipi, Katrin Wittig | Review of African Political Economy
The viral emergency in Palestine
S C Molavi, Eyal Weizman | Verso Books
COVID-19 Should Be a Legitimate ‘Excuse’ to Vote by Mail
Max Feldman et al. | Brennan Center for Justice
Scaling Economic Solidarity: The Pandemic, Nonprofits, and Power
Chris Benner | Nonprofit Quarterly
Privilegien in Corona-Krise: Das Ende der Überlegenheitsarie [German]
Susan Arndt | taz
Context
Anti-Asian Racism in the 1817 Cholera Pandemic
Sagaree Jain | JSTOR Daily
What the Civil War can teach us about COVID-19
Jason Phillips | OUPblog
Mitigating COVID-19 panic buying: Lessons from historical financial crises
Kilian Rieder | Vox EU
What history can teach us about 'flattening the curve'
Howard Markel | PBS
Social Toll
Covid-19 Denialism and Xenophobia
Edna Bonhomme | Spectre Journal
How are refugees affected by COVID-19?
Samuel Volkin | JHU Hub
Out of sight
William Shoki | Africa is a Country
La comunità sorda segnante italiana all’epoca del coronavirus: lingua dei segni e accessibilità [Italian]
Tiziana Gulli, Virginia Volterra | MicroMega
Tech
Alibaba’s Covid-19 Crisis Response Is in the Cloud
Tim Culpan | Bloomberg
A Pandemic Shows Just How Dangerous It Is for Governments to Shut Down the Internet
Justin Sherman | Slate
As Google becomes key infrastructure for new coronavirus relief, old issues haunt it
Jennifer Elias | CNBC
Corona-App: Wissenschaftler warnen vor "beispielloser Überwachung" [German]
Lisa Hegemann | Die Zeit
Academic
Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations
Seth Benzell et al. | MIT Sloan School of Management
Crowding and the epidemic intensity of COVID-19 transmission
Benjamin Rader | medRxiv
Can a virus undermine human rights?
Olivier Nay | The Lancet: Public Health
Future
The Long, Hard Road Ahead to Revive New York City’s Economy
J. David Goodman | New York Times
Covid-19: les prémices d'un «Big One»? [French]
Paul Molga | Les Echos
„Verwundbarkeit macht solidarisch“ [German]
Christian Schröder
Capitalism
Covid-19 Capitalism, Neoliberal Debt & the Need for Sovereign Money
Tim Di Muzio | Progress in Political Economy
Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic
John Bellamy Foster et al. | Socialist Workers Party UK
An Organic Crisis Is Upon Us
Zachary Levenson | Spectre Journal
Kapitalismus-Kritiker Sir Paul Collier: „Amerika muss sich verändern“ [German]
Astrid Dörner | Handelsblatt
Amazon, Blackstone y BlackRock, los grandes beneficiados en la economía tras el covid-19 [Spanish]
Pablo Elorduy | El Salto
El virus y la lucha de clases que dicen que ya no existe [Spanish]
JUAN TORRES LÓPEZ | Público
Crise du coronavirus: En sortir par la gauche [French]
Libération
Euro: le miracle ou la mort [French]
Frédéric Lordon | Le Monde diplomatique
Public Health
The Man Who Beat the 1957 Flu Pandemic
J. Cavanaugh Simpson | Scientific American
As Politicians Lean on Disease Modelers in Health Crisis, Some Scientists Fear a Backlash
Max Colchester | The Wall Street Journal
COVID–19 Is a Test for Climate Migration and the World Is Failing
Pierfilippo M. Natta, Adam Weinstein | The Diplomat
Anna Estany: “Los virus no entienden de clases sociales, pero las políticas sanitarias sí” [Spanish]
Cuartopoder
Comment fonctionnent les modèles qui prédisent l’évolution de la pandémie [French]
David Adam | Pour La Science
Public Sphere
Survivalisme, violence, Etat policier… la fiction postapocalyptique décrit-elle notre avenir? [French]
Abel Mestre | Le Monde
Ken Loach, il volto disumano del libero mercato nella crisi sanitaria [Italian]
Giovanna Branca | il manifesto
La cultura ti cura [Italian]
Giuliano Volpe | HuffingtonPost Italia
Aritmetica, cultura e pedagogia del distanziamento sociale [Italian]
Antonello Ciccozzi | Scienza in Rete
Michelangelo Pistoletto: “Il ruolo dell’arte in questa pandemia è la sensibilità” [Italian]
Luca Deias | Italia che Cambia
Preparar-se para a guerra [Portuguese]
Vladimir Safatle | El País Brasil
Class & Labour
Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor
Lee Elliot Major | LSE's Business Review
For Indian migrants in the Gulf it is a financial rather than a health crisis
S. Irudaya Rajan | openDemocracy
Flucht vor Corona: Wo Reiche auf Distanz gehen [German]
Alexander Sarovic, Britta Sandberg | Der Spiegel
Especial Quarentena Sem Terra [Video - Portuguese]
João Paulo Rodrigues | Movimento Sem Terra
L'educatore invisibile - L’operaio sociale al tempo del Covid-19 [Italian]
Mariacristina Massarotto | MilanoInMovimento
Economy
The scale of the economic disaster ahead is only just becoming apparent
David Blanchflower | New Statesman
The EU Should Issue Perpetual Bonds
George Soros | Project Syndicate
The Pandemic and the Global Economy
Jayati Ghosh | Dissent Magazine
International
China’s political system and the coronavirus
Branko Milanovic | Social Europe
The Coronavirus Will Not Spare Africa
Jonathan Crush | Jacobin
Afrika hat auf Corona entschlossen reagiert [German]
Robert von Lucius | The European
Coronavirus: une écaille de pangolin dans le soulier de satin chinois [French]
Valérie Toranian | Revue des Deux Mondes
O exemplo da Suécia: relutância ou irreverência? [Portuguese]
Mário Rui André, João Ribeiro | Shifter - SAPO