Xuefei Ren – Governing the Urban in China and India
Mark Frazier's recent interview with Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, upon the publication of her new book.
Death by Lockdown: Thoughts on Causation and Non-COVID Deaths
Dinesh Mohan, Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, on how principles of road safety help us understand the human cost of the harsh lockdown in India.
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The United States is a country with a desperate need for understanding its own history. We have been fed lies and half-truths, forced to celebrate [...]
Conceptual Issues in the Field of Forced Migration Studies: International Norms and the Internal Displacement of Workers Due to COVID-19
Alexander Aleinikoff, Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, on a new category of forced migrants: the pandemically displaced.
The Use and Abuse of the Phrase “Global Public Good”
A flawed understanding of the concept of “public good” hampers the fight for equitable access to the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine.
Messy Does It: The Everyday Politics of Pandemic Response in an Indian City
Mukta Naik, a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, India, examines the migrant crisis in Gurugram and the civil society responses to it.
Behind the Curve: India’s Failing Response to COVID-19
Sociologist Ravi Duggal discusses India's journey from a humanitarian crisis toward a public health catastrophe.
Will “Pandemic Socialism” Become the New Normal?
The responses to the ongoing economic crisis by major Western governments are a partial realization of the economist James Meade’s vision of liberal socialism.
Hostages of Mobility
The economic and social consequences of the pandemic can be understood through the global economy’s dependence on our collective mobility.