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Pandemic Discourses welcomes recommendations for the best reads on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Animated Pandemic: ‘Big Whites’ on Shenzhen Social Media
Questions of gender loom large in visual representations of the pandemic response and public health campaigns in Shenzhen. Mary Ann O'Donnell provides an account of how gender and animation are employed on social media by the public and state authorities as part of this campaign.
Vaccination Imbroglio in Brazil: Negligence, Political Disputes, and Technical Authority
Brazil's Covid-19 vaccination rate is quite impressive considering that it has not been achieved through the efforts of the Brazilian Presidency but despite them, writes Laís Ramalho, PhD candidate at the International Relations Institute (IRI) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Visiting Research Scholar at Observatory on Latin America (OLA), The New School.
Meet our SGEP Fellows: Ceren Ergenc
On December 13, 2021, Dr. Ceren Ergenc, an Associate Professor from the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, presented her research on [...]
Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine Kennedy
Dr. Loraine Kennedy invited Mr. Ram Mohan Chitta, her collaborator in Hyderabad, India, to the SGEP’s Urban Governance discussion on December 13, 2021. Dr. [...]
SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil Eyal
The bi-weekly seminars on Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking (SGEP) recently invited two distinguished guest speakers to have conversations with the cohort of [...]
Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan Zhang
On Nov. 30, 2021, the SGEP fellows met for a seminar featuring the comparative perspective between India and China. Professor Wenjuan Zhang presented [...]
Conversations on the Frontline: The Future Politics and Geography of Vaccine Supply
Achal Prabhala, coordinator for the AcesssIBSA project which campaigns for access to medicines and vaccines, discusses the politics and shifting geographies of COVID-19 vaccine access.
Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization
The age of hyper-globalization requires global institutions to contain pandemics worldwide in a way that builds on international solidarity and human rights norms, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, co-editor of Pandemic Discourses.