With the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, new research and analysis emerges on a daily basis.
What is the impact on social sciences? How will global politics look like post-pandemic? And what are the current challenges?
The DA Team recommends various articles for reading on the pandemic, split up in different categories.
This section acts as a useful repository of various articles and other media published elsewhere.
All sources are listed in each respective post.
Communovirus
The virus communizes us because we have to face it together, even if by isolating ourselves. It is a chance to really experience our community, argues Jean Luc Nancy.
Why this crisis is a turning point in history
The era of peak globalisation is over. For those of us not on the front line, clearing the mind and thinking how to live in an altered world is the task at hand.
Monitor and Punish? Yes, Please! – The Philosophical Salon
Are we approaching a global state of exception? Have Giorgio Agamben’s analyses gained new actuality?
Coronavirus and philosophers | European Journal of Psychoanalysis
A collection of various articles and commentary by philosophers and how their work relates to the pandemic
Coronavirus crisis: Major economic and financial consequences | openDemocracy
Beyond the immediate emergency, a radical change in European policies is needed. European fiscal policy should be based on a large common budget and greater autonomy for national governments.
Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year”
As coronavirus spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing, let alone treatment, the long-anticipated monster is finally at the door. And with global capitalism so impotent in the face of this biological crisis, our demands must be for properly international public-health infrastructure.
MR Online | Coronavirus: A disaster of capitalism’s making
From the beginning, medical experts were clear that they simply did not know how bad or otherwise the virus was, yet many non-experts seemed to have an opinion.
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read | Financial Times
Even while the virus proliferates, who could not be thrilled by the swell of birdsong in cities, peacocks dancing at traffic crossings and the silence in the skies?
Why the coronavirus presents a global political danger
The outbreak of coronavirus has become more than a deadly epidemic. It is also a canvas on to which people’s deepest fears and prejudices are being projected
Coronavirus pandemic in the EU – Fundamental Rights Implications – Bulletin 1 | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
These reports constitute background material for a comparative report for the project “Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the EU – fundamental rights implications”.
A ceasefire is necessary to protect Yemen from coronavirus | UNDP
Watching the invisible tsunami crashing through countries, and creating a global health crisis and economic catastrophe, we are preparing for landfall in Yemen, already one of the most fragile countries on earth
What’s in the New Coronavirus Ceasefire Talk in Myanmar’s Ethnic Conflict? – The Diplomat
Within Myanmar, individual armed ethnic groups, including the Karen National Union and the Chin National Front, have called for a ceasefire of this sort