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Pandemic Discourses

A Global Contagion Demands Global Perspectives

This blog aims to foster an interdisciplinary and global dialogue on the historical, social, and political dimensions of the pandemic. It will provide diverse perspectives from different corners of the world, and especially the Global South, bringing to the forefront variable and contested understandings of disease, science, and society.

The blog is a collaboration between the India China Institute and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. It is co-edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Manjari Mahajan, and Mark W. Frazier.

Pandemic Discourses welcomes contributions from authors whose work addresses themes and questions related to COVID-19 responses, practices, and policies at various scales, from community to global. Details on submission can be found here.

Best Reads: Society and Politics

India China Institute

|2023-02-09T11:19:30-05:00February 8th, 2023

COVID-19's effects on the world will be studied for decades to come, but a substantive body of literature which helps us understand the pandemic's transformation of global society and politics has already emerged.

Conversations on the Frontline: The Politics of Negotiating Pandemic Preparedness

|2022-12-14T13:13:40-05:00December 14th, 2022

James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International, speaks with Manjari Mahajan on how global health institutions can work to settle issues such as intellectual property rights and global technological capacity gaps

Best Reads: China and the Pandemic

Mark W. Frazier

|2022-11-09T19:18:21-05:00November 10th, 2022

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.

Interview: How the Lockdown is Remaking Shanghai Neighborhoods

Sun Zhe

|2022-07-08T15:31:46-04:00July 8th, 2022

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 Wants Your Best Reads

|2022-07-06T13:00:34-04:00July 6th, 2022

Pandemic Discourses welcomes recommendations for the best reads on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Animated Pandemic: ‘Big Whites’ on Shenzhen Social Media

Mary Ann O’Donnell

|2022-07-08T14:59:52-04:00May 25th, 2022

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.

Vaccination Imbroglio in Brazil: Negligence, Political Disputes, and Technical Authority

Lais Ramalho

|2022-05-25T12:13:52-04:00May 25th, 2022

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.

Conversations on the Frontline: The Future Politics and Geography of Vaccine Supply

|2021-12-14T17:11:58-05:00December 14th, 2021

Achal Prabhala, coordinator for the AcesssIBSA project which campaigns for access to medicines and vaccines, discusses the politics and shifting geographies of COVID-19 vaccine access.

Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

|2021-12-13T18:23:16-05:00December 13th, 2021

The age of hyper-globalization requires global institutions to contain pandemics worldwide in a way that builds on international solidarity and human rights norms, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, co-editor of Pandemic Discourses.

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