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The Sleeping Bull in a China Shop

Exploring how Covid19 elucidates exploitation along the crosshairs of the occident vs the orient, and class stratification, in a neo-liberal age.

LOUIS A.G. WILKES

Privilege In The Times Of Crisis: Musings Of A Field Epidemiology Trainee In India

NUZRATH JAHAN

COVID-19 has invaded our lives physically and psychologically. For someone working in the health sector, and a field epidemiology trainee, the first week of COVID-19  went by in a whirlwind for me. Our contact session for the India FETP(Field Epidemiology Training Programme) got suspended and we were  posted into field work to be part of the surveillance team for our states. Amidst all of this overwhelming work and deadlines, I have decided to take pause and reflect before I run off again.

Hinduism & Coronavirus: How The Digital Becomes Sacred

TILAK PAREKH

The coronavirus has led to seismic and widespread changes across all nodes of society, not least, religion. In a recent article in The New York Times, Vivian Yee writes, “Religion is the solace of first resort for billions of people grappling with a pandemic for which scientists, presidents and the secular world seem, so far, to have few answers. With both sanitizer and leadership in short supply, dread over the coronavirus has driven the globe’s faithful even closer to religion and ritual.”[1]

2009 Mexico Swine Flu – 2020 Italy Covid19: How I Experienced A Double Quarantine

SARA SALVATORI

In this article, I will briefly describe my experiences during the two pandemics, swine flu and COVID-19,          when I accidentally lived through quarantine in the most affected countries: Mexico in 2009 and Rome, Italy.

When in 2008 I decided to go to Mexico to undertake fieldwork for my doctoral thesis, I could never have imagined that in 2009, I would experience my first quarantine, but above all, never in my life would I have imagined  I’d be living a second quarantine some years later!

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