...Svati P. Shah In the wake of the twinned specters of authoritarianism and antidemocratic governance that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in India have both exacerbated and facilitated, the author argues that scholarship on sex work deployed through a critique of labor will be pressed to rethink its...

...Jamie Cross How are we to engage with the forms of solarity that emerge in response to humanitarian crises, like those created by a highly virulent infectious disease? As we struggle to respond to the worldwide SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and begin to envisage the role of solar energy in a green...

...Penny Koutrolikou Crisis has been one of the most popular words in Europe since the turn of the millennium, exemplified by the “Eurozone crisis,” the so-called “refugee crisis,” and the latest Covid-19 crisis—among others. Drawing on critical analyses of crises and on imagined geographies...

... based on social and economic justice. The essay then charts the uprising’s demise amid protestor division, mass poverty and unemployment, galloping inflation, palpable insecurity, COVID-19 lockdowns, and external intervention. Hizbullah became the elephant in the room, with sectarian tension and some...

... integration, (3) social mobilization, and/or (4) institutional legitimation. Such strategic moves, we argue, have become particularly pertinent following the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit urban areas particularly hard and is intensifying certain social dependencies and institutional shortcomings...

...Veena Dubal As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged human bodies and economies across the world, millions of app-deployed drivers in the United States—primarily immigrants and subordinated racial minorities—faced a dangerous and perplexing paradox created by law. Simultaneously treated as independent...

... politics, and incompatible with white-centered notions of justice, liberty, and democratic freedom. Critically, in this moment, as Black Americans are disproportionately harmed by the effects of COVID-19, hypersurveilled in neighborhoods plagued by neoliberal disinvestment, and over-policed en masse, mass...

... of particular regimes of motion. The article tells three stories of crises in motion: supply chain disruption during COVID-19, blockades of colonial circulatory infrastructures, and the disastrous ecologies of extractivism, emphasizing their deep entanglements. This article traces how these crises of lifeworlds...

...Ellen Samuels; Elizabeth Freeman This introduction connects the temporal regimes that disabled people and communities negotiate with the universalization of “crip time” during the COVID-19 pandemic, in full swing at the time of this writing. It discusses the articles and artwork in this special...

... white supremacy white nationalism COVID-19 References African American Policy Forum . 2015 . Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women . New York : Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies . Anonymous . 2020 . “ The Siege of the Third Precinct...

... : Routledge . Human Rights Watch . 2020 . “ Malaysia: Allow Rohingya Refugees Ashore: Covid-19 No Basis for Pushing Back Boats .” Human Rights Watch , April 18 . hrw.org/news/2020/04/18/malaysia-allow-rohingya-refugees-ashore . Hutt Michael . 2005 . Unbecoming Citizens: Culture...

... think COVID-19 will affect the conditions and regula- tions concerning migrant workers in South Korea and the countries that you ve been working on, for example, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Cambodia? What are your comrades working on during this pandemic period? Has the present situation changed their work...

... . 2020 . “ No Room of One’s Own: Early Journal Submission Data Suggest COVID-19 Is Tanking Women’s Research Productivity .” Inside Higher Ed , April 21 . insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/21/early-journal-submission-data-suggest-covid-19-tanking-womens-research-productivity . Franke Ann H...

..., scholars, and practitioners orga- nized under the title of Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in Con- temporary Global Context. After gatherings in Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur, participants were due to come together in Taipei for a meeting that has been deferred by the COVID-19 pandemic...

... in the wake of the “War on Terror,” the “socialization” of debt of the financial class during the Great Recession and subsequent austerity measures, and the recent quadrupling of the wealth of the few during the COVID-19 pandemic. Attempts to reformulate and represent the crisis—against its rebellious...

... of the future, we must reimagine the ethics of pace. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 ethics pace digital humanities COVID-19 disability References Ahmed Sara . 2006 . Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Google Play...

... of the citizen/alien duality that produces precarious lives in the entire region of South Asia. The CAA appar- ently was intended to clarify the confusion emerging out of this interlocked duality once and for all. It is not even mid-June, barely three months later in the year. Yet, in the midst of the COVID-19...

... the official response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Political Consequences of the Pandemic The first COVID-19 cases were reported in late February among travelers from Europe. Within a week, cases began to be noticed in several parts of the country: most seem to have originated from those who had arrived from...

... with INBA Students”). June 3 . https://dystopica.org/2019/06/03/practicas-de-la-micropolitica-taller-de-mapeos-radiales-con-estudiantes-del-inba/ . Vitrina Dystópica and Grupo de Estudios Experimentales Paul K. Feyerabend . 2020 . “ El COVID-19 desde el Oktubre-19. Segunda Conversación con...

... of slavery. What follows is a set of ruminations on Black life, temporality and space in crisis. I use the current conjuncture of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest as a backdrop to think through some of the tensions of survival, sociality, and communality in crisis. The experiences that I draw from...