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...,” and “genetic predisposition.” This is the repetition of a racialized script during yet another health crisis, while we see little change to health infrastructures between crises. The language we have used during the pandemic is neither obvious nor inevitable. There are other ways to represent this point...

...Sima Shakhsari Abstract This article focuses on different iterations of virality to explore the racial logic of death and the crisis of our time during the coronavirus pandemic. By examining the war on the coronavirus, the sanctions on Iran, and the rise of white supremacy in the United States...

... with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical corporations for the right to essential life-saving drugs. Can the same strategies be mobilized to deal with inequalities...

... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 We are, of course, in the midst of a global pandemic that has engulfed nearly every habitable terrain on earth. At the time of this writing, the Movement for Black Lives has also been leading demonstrations against antiblack policing practices...

...Harris Solomon Abstract This short story set in Mumbai imagines the enduring legacies of pandemic sickness and immunity. Everyday labors, pleasures, demands, and relations must be navigated across the fault lines of health, illness, and state surveillance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...

... International Sanitary Conference in Dresden. The sanitary passport shares with the Covid-19 passport two features. First, a similar aim, that of controlling the movement of potentially infected individuals across borders. Second, a similar condition of possibility, that of being the product of a pandemic...

... of dehumanization. The ism scandal in the early 2000s and had one of the relationship of the animals to their humans reads largest populations affected by the pandemic in the more like Mbembe’s version of the Bergsonian tra- first decade of the twenty-­first century.14 Of course...

... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 burial cemeteries death early modern Istanbul necropolitics plague In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the modern world was disturbed to face a long-forgotten problem that everyone associated with a distant past: disposal of the bodies...

... and virality and the management of life and death in the age of global pandemics and COVID-19 in particular. Finally, a kitabkhana organized by Rajbir Judge brings together reflections on Omnia El Shakry's The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt and Sarah Pinto's The Doctor and Mrs...

... officials to another potential onslaught [and] where bodies of the dead are washed in the wa- if the prevailing plague epidemic proceeded un- ter the people drink Because of the potentially fatal checked. As he ardently described, “The putrefying ramscations of pandemics such as plague discussions...

... precipitated an uptick, with a crescendo during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Flooding in March and April 2019 wreaked destruction in twenty-five provinces and killed at least fifty people. In November, security forces violently suppressed protests by working-class and impoverished people angered by a sudden...

... in which people live, in South Asia and across the world. Companies such as the Emirati Emaar Properties, a real estate development firm, showcase field offices in Pakistan and India as well as Egypt and Morocco, and its projects span the globe, from Istanbul to Los Angeles. Although the COVID-19 pandemic...

... Duke University. Her research focuses on con- erary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS temporary southern African experimental literature pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. and the relationship between narrative form and na- tional belonging for unbeloved...

... to be eligible for expedited citizenship under some conditions. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the government of India imposed an abrupt lockdown within a matter of hours on March 24, resulting in the closure of the Shaheen Bagh protest site that had galvanized much support in opposition...

... underacknowledged resource of experience and analysis generated by scholars of the global South. We invite reflections about the uneven effects of the global pandemic, especially those sensitive to deep structures of racialization and inequality (including that structuring academic work) within and outside...

... others changed apace with the transformations that reconfigured the world over the past three years. Before a civil war altered the political calculus in Ethiopia, before an authoritarian turn in response to “maximum pressure” sanctions closed the door on reform in Iran, and before a global pandemic put...

..., with approximately 24.1 percent of the adult population infected with the virus.1 In a country with a total population of 1.7 million, approximately 75 people die of this disease daily. Many are terminally ill when diag- nosed, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic has swiftly decreased the life expectancy in this nation...

... changed since the global pandemic, it remains strongly connected to the prepandemic trend of flexibilization. According to Rose, this consists of an “explicit political strategy” aimed at dismantling the “rigidities” of the labor market, alongside attempts “to increase the flexibility of relations between...

... uprising ( thawrah ) was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping through an already weakened country. The postwar real estate market driven by neoliberal and sectarian guidelines has contributed to soaring housing insecurities. 2 With precipitous financial downfalls and a dysfunctional public...

... environmental changes that occurred over the correspond with the cholera pandemics of the longue durée. This essay begins by outlining the early-­nineteenth century that precipitated the ecological factors that precipitated this decline. quite tangible decline of the city...