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ABC Blueprint: The Politics of Face Masks

ABC Blueprint: The Politics of Face Masks "While COVID-19 has radically transformed every aspect of contemporary life, it is the face mask that has perhaps become its starkest symbol. And beneath this new accessory lies a moist, miasmic, breeding ground for tensions around questions of identity, liberty, race and above all the problem of collective […]

Urban Political Podcast: Spatialities of Shock

Urban Political Podcast: Spatialities of Shock Reflecting on how shocks are applied as tools to further political agendas, Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, and Roger Keil consider the implications for racialized inequalities and the Global South-North divide. Two months after the first conversation with out guests, at a moment when the coronavirus outbreak was declared […]

Panel Interview on the Urbanization of COVID-19: Containment, States of Exception, and Solidarity

Panel Interview on the Urbanization of COVID-19: Containment, States of Exception, and Solidarity Three prominent urban researchers with a focus on infectious disease explain why political responses to the current Coronavirus outbreak require an understanding of urban dynamics. Looking back at the last Coronavirus pandemic, the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003, they highlight what affected cities […]