...Neville Hoad Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic Neville Hoad n the inaugural Z. K. Matthews Memorial...

...Eric Klinenberg; Melina Sherman Abstract In the United States, the COVID‐19 pandemic has proved to be especially destructive and divisive. One of the few things that has united Americans during the pandemic, however, is the experience of watching a new genre of viral videos—face mask face‐offs...

...Guobin Yang; Adetobi Moses Abstract From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, ordinary people around the world have been documenting their experiences in diverse media forms, giving rise to a public culture of pandemic storytelling. This public culture, however, can be transitory. Personal...

...Camila Pierobon Abstract This article reflects on the dangers related to the circulation and displacement of the urban poor in Brazil, which intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author describes a moment when Black women with small children asked for permission from the leadership...

...Paula Kift Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world turned to contact‐tracing applications in an attempt to balance the reopening of the economy with keeping the virus at bay. But as this article demonstrates, contact‐tracing applications not only fail to protect...

..., it is better understood in terms of the fracture of a fragile alliance among virologists, public health experts, and biosecurity officials around the problem of pandemic preparedness. forum The Risks of Preparedness...

... change in a post‐pandemic era. In studying emergent forms of building in Mumbai, we discovered how residents of majority districts caught in the middle of the city's macromoves found themselves being actively disentangled from the networks and forms that had aided their capacity to endure urban life...

... of racism and homophobia themselves. To claim that COVID is like AIDS, in other words, is to deny the massive asymmetry of loss that characterized that earlier pandemic, the crushing toll paid overwhelmingly by Black, Brown, queer, and trans bodies, and therefore to dispose of those bodies anew. While...

... : University of Chicago Press . Kaplan Matt . 2011 . “ Genomics in Africa: Avoiding Past Pitfalls .” Cell 147 , no. 2 : 11 – 13 . Keck Frédéric . 2010 . Un monde grippé (A World with the Flu) . Paris : Flammarion . Keck Frédéric . 2014 . “ Birds as Sentinels for Pandemic...

...Arjun Appadurai; Michael Ralph; Vyjayanthi Rao; Erica Robles-Anderson Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The preceding issue (January 2021) was completed in the spring of 2020 as a pandemic was disrupting every arena of social life. Even then, we aimed to see “the virus...

... on technology to engage with coresearchers (descendants) during 2020–21 due to two crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and protests associated with the death of George Floyd. The highly contagious nature of COVID-19 introduced danger and risk into interpersonal interaction and human connection. Instead of conducting...

... of this tacit compact were already being dissolved prior to the pandemic as regimes sought to demonstrate their creditworthiness by clearing unruly populations framed as deterrents to investments from extractive infrastructures. Transport hubs and networks, storage and port facilities, export processing zones...

... the myriad ways our collective breathing is central to, and curtailed by, the American Aspiration. Grounded through the breath, it traces the deep entanglements of global pandemic, climate change, state violence, and lung cancer, and their combined social, political, and environmental implications...

... of Pandemic Storytelling.” Yang's extraordinary book The Wuhan Lockdown ( 2022 ) documented the first days of the pandemic, in early 2020. In this essay, Yang and Moses expand the view. They incorporate voices from Philadelphia as part of a Corona Diaries audio project, and from Shanghai in 2022, which...

.... Equally important are policies on environment, health, and other human security issues. For example, pandemic diseases, from avian flu to AIDS, pose dramatic risks. The twentieth-century growth of public health as a field — and a vision...

... to tell the difference between the junk and useful data so that we don’t collectively die from the thirst for knowledge in the middle of an ocean of data. But in order to do that, and as a society seeking solutions to some very serious problems (like averting pandemics), we have to decide what it is we...

...=9D0CE1DE1F38F934A35752C0A967958260 . Hansen, Thomas Blom, and Finn Stepputat. 2005. Introduction. In Sovereign bodies: Citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Hoad, Neville. 2005. Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues: The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic. Public...

... and anxieties under conditions of aerosolized ruination. This article sheds special light on links between gender binaries and filtered life. It traces how, prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic, scientists, marketers, and many others residing in urban China interacted with air filters in ways textured by the male...

... 54 Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois Charles L. Briggs 75 Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic Neville Hoad...