A Tale of Two [Unvaxed] Women
We needed to find a new plumber. I called around. The first business that seemed willing to clean our boiler and replace a problematic hose spigot had availability…
Tag: COVID-19
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Beitrag und Foto von Mariella Neuberg und Niklas Schrade Die Welt befindet sich seit dem Beginn der Corona-Pandemie in einem kollektiven Wartezustand – der Alltag der Gesellschaft wurde…
The Social Potential of Continuing to Wear Masks by Christos Lynteris
We are often told that anti-epidemic masks should not be politicised. Though often well intentioned, this admonition falls short of taking masks seriously as social and historical objects.…
Falling off the cliff: Mythical sacrifice mirrored in Sweden’s Covid-19 response by Carolina Johnson
Ättestupa is the Swedish word given to a number of steep cliffs. The myth of the ättestupa holds that in prehistoric Nordic times, older community members would throw themselves off…
Handling Contested Truths in Times of Crises: Ghana’s COVID-19 Experience by Ignatius Suglo G.D
As the pandemic ravages the rest of the world, the casualty rate in Africa remains a mystery to those who predicted doom for the continent. Given African countries’…
Naming the Virus, Becoming the Virus: Affective Forces of Threat from Hà Nội to Atlanta and the Possibility for Anti-Racist Solidarities
“Chống dịch như chống giặc” (“Fight the pandemic like an invader”) has become Vietnam’s slogan in its battle against COVID-19. From the pandemic’s onset until April 2021, Vietnam…
Why do I keep finding masks in Naupaka? An anthropologist observes mask use by tourists in Hawaiʻi
Mask discarded in naupaka, a native plant on the coast of Hawai‘i. Taken by author April 19, 2021. By Emily Creek Disclaimer: Even as I write this the…
Mediated Intimacies: Teletherapy and the Changing Face of American Mental Healthcare by Rebecca J. Lester
“Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?” “I can, but your head is cut off. I just see your neck. Can you hear me?” “Yeah, yeah, I hear you. &nb…
Days of Their Lives: The Limits, Possibilities, and Parallels of Media-Ted Research during a Pandemic
On a regular day, a Hindi soap opera production set in Mumbai is home to upwards of 100 artists and technicians – production associates, actors, make-up artists, costume…
Predicting Across Time and Space by Bettina Ng’weno
Every day for the month of March 2021, I watched the numbers of Covid-19 cases in Kenya climb and climb. Family and friends sent me messages that the…
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 2
In Part 1 we ended with the documentary’s discussion of the type of business model that has been created around COVID-19, or to match the title of the…
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 1
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19’s spread was now a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, when here in Quebec a total…
The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight by Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa
On March 12th, 2021, students at Uganda’s Mbarara University of Science andTechnology (MUST) organised a strike. The strike, the students argued, was both a protest against online lectures…
Long Covid, chronic fatigue syndrome and women: the shadow of hysteria by Ilana Löwy
Is long Covid disseminated by newspapers? On April 14th, 2021, the British journalist and writer George Monbiot published an article entitled “Apparently just by talking about it, I’m…
The World Health Organization (WHO): A Problem of Trust
Over the past twenty years or so, what has been the record of the World Health Organization when it comes to major public health crises? Has the WHO…
‘Weather-ing’ the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK by Brianne Wenning
Few things are more stereotypically British than discussing the weather. A sense of national pride seems to pervades this discussion. In fact, during our time in the UK…
Caring for home: The failures of vaccine nationalism, or, Why the pandemic will not be over soon by Luisa Madrigal
Para español aquí. It was one of those early spring evenings where the sun was warm and the air fresh. My friends and I were at the park,…
After a Year of Being Locked Down
Nobody (as far as I know) has commented on how hard this year of lockdowns has been on university professors. That’s good: nobody should. Many millions of workers…
Anthropologists in Times of COVID 19
Dr. Rajni Lamba Anthropologist, CEO, The REEDS, India (The Rural Environmental Enterprises Development Society) As a behavioural scientist any anthropologist has to merely look around to realize …
Tackling the pandemic: examining the role of social movements and organizations in Argentina by Silvia Hirsch
Introduction Mónica, a 44-year-old woman, wakes up every morning thinking about the challenges ahead. Today, like every other day, she will prepare soup with noodles and rice for…
“Not the Chinese, I’m a Pfizer girl!” The covert politics of pharmaceutical branding in Covid struck Hungary
ARIEL BINETH HUNGARY. The country has one of the highest death rates of COVID-19 globally.1 Hospitals are filled with ICU patients at some places outnumbering staff 5:1.2 Nurses…
Visions of Black Futurity Amidst the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality by Nadia Mbonde
When I ask Willow, an Afro-Puerto Rican young woman in her 20s, if quarantine has helped reduce the stigma of mental illness, she responds: I think it will…
Mourning for Aicha, Mourning for Yemen
By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Aicha wrote me ten…
Vaccine envy and vaccine snobbery – why we look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine
MARIA LARRAIN The vaccine rollout has been well-underway in the UK since Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 jab in…