This first part of Pandemic Discourses' Best Reads List covers the development of the COVID-19 Pandemic during its early days in China. These specific readings were selected out of many great candidates due to their unique perspectives on the effects of the pandemic on a human as well as societal level.
Prof. Ying Chen, Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School of Social Research and the member of India China Institute's Faculty Advisory Committee was [...]
Dr. SUN Zhe discusses how lockdowns in Shanghai have reshaped neighborhoods and communities, forcing previously atomized residents to participate in community affairs and work to address challenges such as food shortages.
Pandemic Discourses welcomes recommendations for the best reads on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Questions of gender loom large in visual representations of the pandemic response and public health campaigns in Shenzhen. Mary Ann O'Donnell provides an account of how gender and animation are employed on social media by the public and state authorities as part of this campaign.
Brazil's Covid-19 vaccination rate is quite impressive considering that it has not been achieved through the efforts of the Brazilian Presidency but despite them, writes Laís Ramalho, PhD candidate at the International Relations Institute (IRI) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Visiting Research Scholar at Observatory on Latin America (OLA), The New School.
On December 13, 2021, Dr. Ceren Ergenc, an Associate Professor from the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, presented her research on [...]
Dr. Loraine Kennedy invited Mr. Ram Mohan Chitta, her collaborator in Hyderabad, India, to the SGEP’s Urban Governance discussion on December 13, 2021. Dr. [...]
The bi-weekly seminars on Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking (SGEP) recently invited two distinguished guest speakers to have conversations with the cohort of [...]
