Pandemic DiscoursesIndia China Institute2021-11-09T21:23:02-05:00

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.

Not Waiting for a Savior

Lidet Tadesse

|2020-11-15T15:53:13-05:00November 15th, 2020

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.

A Pandemic Letter from Tokyo

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

|2021-02-22T16:35:41-05:00November 3rd, 2020

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.

COVID-19 and the New Tech Imperium

Sophia Kalantzakos

|2021-02-22T16:37:13-05:00October 26th, 2020

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.

A Tale of Two Epidemics: Mumbai, Bubonic Plague and COVID-19

Prashant Kidambi

|2021-02-22T16:38:14-05:00October 22nd, 2020

Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester, on the continuities and disjunctions between responses to the 1896 bubonic plague and COVID-19 in Mumbai, India.

The Looming Developing Country Debt Crisis and the Fear of Imposed Austerity

Barry Herman

|2020-10-16T00:36:54-04:00October 15th, 2020

The pandemic has plunged developing countries deeper into debt. Barry Herman, Visiting Scholar at The New School, assesses the options available to them.

China: Globalization and “Middle Politics” After COVID-19

Min Ye

|2020-10-15T19:20:44-04:00October 10th, 2020

Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, unpacks what the policy discourse of Chinese analysts and opinion leaders says about the trajectory of post-pandemic globalization in China.

Where Is the Risk in the COVID Economy?

|2020-09-25T12:28:06-04:00September 23rd, 2020

The pandemic has not been a crisis that has brought finance to a standstill. To the contrary, it has opened up new opportunities for the extension and intensification of certain financial practices, write Janet Roitman and Andrew Moon of The New School

Iran: The Double Jeopardy of Sanctions and COVID-19

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani

|2021-02-22T16:41:44-05:00September 19th, 2020

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, on how US sanctions have aggravated Iran's COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19 and Challenges to Teacher Education in Rural Ghana

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

|2020-09-14T10:16:23-04:00September 12th, 2020

The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system, writes Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries, University of Georgia.

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