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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO COVID-19 PROJECT
Summaries of Responses
From: Collecting COVID-19: A crowd-sourced digital ethnography of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Question One: How do people find and share information online during a global pandemic?
‘Anthropological Responses to COVID-19’ will comprise six questions, each lasting a fortnight. These are posted on a website created by University College London’s Centre for Digital Anthropology.
Rapid Public Health Enlightenment (RPHE) to Curb the Continued Spread Of COVID-19 in Nigeria
S. AKINMAYỌWA LAWAL & JIMOH AMZAT
COVID-19: A Simulacrum of the Climate Crisis?
HACER GÖREN
31st March 2020.
Contrary to the once dominant optimism among the public that “Turkey is safe and secure”, COVID-19 has not skipped Turkey either. Yes, it is a single and “simple” virus that started to reinscribe not only Turkey but also the entire globe.
God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea
MONICA MINNEGAL AND PETER DWYER
Global Distrust & the Future of Multilateralism: Reflection on International Relations and Covid-19
FATHI RAYYAN
Technologies of Public Security: Deploying Imaginary Borders
HARRY FLETCHER
On the 23rd of January, I sat on the fourth floor of a packed-out library, writing my dissertation. My thesis was on building pandemic resilient airports, and the lessons we could take from the 2003 SARS pandemic (another coronavirus that spread globally as asymptomatic but infectious passengers transited through airports). My institutional email app pinged. Glad of the distraction from semiotic theory I read the news that we had all been waiting for:
Brasil, A Quarentena Como Possibilidade: Um Diálogo Africano E Sul-Americano
ANA GRETEL ECHAZÚ BÖSCHEMEIER & PINGRÉWAOGA BÉMA ABDOUL HADI SAVADOGO
Vulnerability of the Indian Poor
JESSICA GHATODE
The global economy seems to be entering troubled territories as the second wave of COVID-19 spread to countries which remained unaffected so far. The economic impact, now no more limited to China, is evidently slowing down other economies including the US economy. Crippling down of world’s two greatest economies is surely bad news for global economic health. Moreover, for India this trouble has surfaced at the worst moment, as the country is already trying very hard to tackle the problems of its domestic economy.
Hope in the Time of Corona: Indonesia
GEGER RIYANTO
We were supposed to have a family dinner. In three days, I will be departing back to Germany. I was coming home for a few weeks to Indonesia in the middle of writing my Ph.D. thesis. Suddenly, during the motorcycle ride to my family’s apartment, my body ached unbearably. My temperature shot up. It felt extremely exhausting even to simply stand up and keeping my attention focused.
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