Veronica Davidov
Veronica Davidov
This article explores how public responses to the Covid-19 pandemic could potentially help us understand the responses to the climate crisis and its environmental catastrophes. Public responses to the pandemic, in turn, also potentially hel...
Pandemic precarity [0.03%]
疫情下的脆弱状态
Ann Cassiman,Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Lotte Meinert
Ann Cassiman
This editorial highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so-...
'We have so many challenges': Small-scale mining, Covid-19 and constant interruptions in West Africa [0.03%]
“挑战重重”：新冠疫情之下西非小型采矿业中断不断
Robert Jan Pijpers,Sabine Luning
Robert Jan Pijpers
Currently, the impacts of Covid-19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid-19 is seen as h...
From lockdown to rāhui and teddy bears in windows: Initial responses to Covid-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand [0.03%]
从封锁到rāhui以及窗户里的泰迪熊：奥特罗亚/新西兰对COVID-19的初期反应
Susanna Trnka
Susanna Trnka
Scholarly examinations of states of emergency frequently underscore how the crisis imaginary is employed to rapidly and unjustifiably expand state power. This line of analysis affords great insight into the misuse of state power. It also, h...
Pedro Tomé
Pedro Tomé
The relationships we humans form with our pets condition the spaces we inhabit and how we move around in them. This article discusses relations between humans and their dogs in the city of Madrid during the Covid-19 lockdown. As an emergenc...
A chimeric being from Kyushu, Japan: Amabie's revival during Covid-19 [0.03%]
来自日本九州的神奇生物：疫情期间被重新提起的天狐 Amelia
Claudia Merli
Claudia Merli
This article explores how the resurgence of a forgotten chimeric figure from the Japanese history of disasters and epidemics intersects with some central ecological and political discourses in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, especiall...
Between Georgia and Ohio: Constructing the Covid-19 Disaster in the United States [0.03%]
佐治亚与俄亥俄之间的新冠灾害构建问题
Jaymelee J Kim,Amanda J Reinke,Erin R Eldridge et al.
Jaymelee J Kim et al.
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold around the world, governments engage in diverse decision-making processes that shape everyday living patterns, rituals and livelihoods. This article compares and examines state-level governmental...
STRUGGLING FOR FOOD IN A TIME OF CRISIS: A comment on Caplan (see pp 8-10 in this issue) [0.03%]
危机时期的粮食争夺战
Martin Caraher
Martin Caraher
This commentary sets Caplan's arguments about food banks and food poverty in the broader context of changes to the welfare state, the 'charitization' of state welfare and the need to address food poverty within a framework of dignity rather...
Catarina Fróis
Catarina Fróis
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, how can the early release of prisoners, requested by the World Health Organization, members of civil society and non-governmental organizations, be considered a 'humane' decision? In this article, th...
COVID-19: THE 'INVISIBLE ENEMY' AND CONTINGENT RACISM: Reflections of an Italian anthropologist conducting fieldwork in Greece [0.03%]
新冠肺炎：“隐形的敌人”与附带种族主义：一名在希腊开展田野调查的意大利人类学家的反思
Manuela Pellegrino
Manuela Pellegrino
In this article, the author provides a narrative of her experience as an Italian undertaking fieldwork in Greece while the epidemic was in full swing. She reflects on representations of 'the invisible enemy': an empty category, she claims, ...