The varied response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crisis of expertise and power dynamics within different approaches to public health, writes Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of The Crisis of Expertise (Polity, 2019).
Golrokh Nafisi, a contemporary Iranian artist, brings a new perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on collective mourning, grief, and political identity in Iran.
The overwhelming prioritization of vaccines takes attention and resources away from the complex political, social and infrastructural investments that underlie a resilient public health response, writes Manjari Mahajan, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
India China Institute recently awarded fellowships to eight New School faculty members and two PhD candidates for the Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar. Faculty Fellows [...]
The coronavirus shutdown in Argentina has revealed systemic institutional violence and discrimination against indigenous and lower-class communities, write Silvia Hirsch and Andrea Mastrangelo, social scientists with the University of San Martín, Argentina.
Freedom is Not Free--A New Decameron, by Jianying Zha, ICI’s China Representative, and Katō Yoshikazu, (Oxford University Press/Hong Kong, 2020), is a record of an [...]
Despite the challenges many African countries continue to face, their response to COVID-19 has been replete with admirable displays of agency, innovation, and ingenuity, writes Lidet Tadesse, an analyst covering peace, security and regional integration in Africa.
The relative success of Japan in containing COVID-19 reveals gaps in the common narratives about ways to control the spread of the virus, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Sophia Kalantzakos, Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at NYU Abu Dhabi, on how technological competition has emerged as the new crucial battlefield in the US-China rivalry after COVID-19.
