May 13 -19, 2020

“Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines. The project is a collaboration between Society for Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Somatosphere. Each is cross-posted on all three websites and distributed over multiple channels. 

If you’d like to suggest a piece to be listed in an upcoming issue, please add it to this public spreadsheet. Please email your questions to medanthroweekly@gmail.com.

Special issues and forums

• Covid-19 Special Issue| Synapsis
• COVID-19 Forum| Laia Soto Bermant and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov | Social Anthropology
• Society after COVID-19| Elena Esposito, David Stark, and Flaminio Squazzoni | Sociologica
• COVID-19 Forum III| Christos Lynteris | Somatosphere
• Epidemic histories| Paola Bertucci and students
• Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19| João Biehl, Onur Günay, and students  

Ongoing series

• MAQ COVID-19 Responses| Medical Anthropology Quarterly
• Witnessing Corona| a joint project of Blog Medizinethnologie, Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology, Global South Studies Center Cologne, and boasblogs
• Dispatches from the pandemic| Somatosphere
• The Age of COVID-19| Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE)
• COVID-19 webinars| American Anthropological Association, Society for Medical Anthropology, Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies SIG
• Covid-19, Fieldsights| Cultural Anthropology
• Pandemic Diaries| American Ethnologist
• Pandemic Insights| Anthropology News
• COVID-19: Views from the Field| Platypus – The CASTAC Blog
• Corona| Allegra Lab
• Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus| anthro{dendum}
• The Covid-19 Chronicles| Discover Society
• Consciously Quarantined| UCL Medical Anthropology
• Corona Times| Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town
• COVID-19 Dispatches | Africa is a Country        
• Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field| Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 
• Corona and Climate| Sydney Environment Institute
• COVIDCalls| Scott Knowles | podcast
• Collecting COVID-19| Haidy Geismar and Hannah Knox | UCL Centre for Digital Ethnography
• perspectives sur le coronavirus| Carnet de L’EHESS | French
• Thinking in a Pandemic| Boston Review
• Posts from the Pandemic| Critical Inquiry
• Quarantine Journal| The Point Magazine                      
• Stories from a Pandemic| The Nocturnists | podcast

Resources

• #coronavirussyllabus| Alondra Nelson, crowd-sourced | SSRC | syllabus
• COVID-19 Resources| American Anthropological Association
• COVID-19 Resources| Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies SIG
• Pandemic Perspectives: Responding to COVID-19| Michael C. Ennis-McMillan and Kristin Hedges, eds. | Open Anthropology
• MAT Virtual Issue: Outbreaks, Epidemic, and Infectious Diseases| Cristina Moreno Lozano, ed. | Medicine Anthropology Theory
• MEDANTHCOVID Idea Generator
• Covid-19 and the Social Sciences| Social Science Research Council
• COVID-19 documents and briefings| Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
• COVID-19 Resources for Sociologists| American Sociological Association
• COVID-19 Pandemic Resources| Consortium of Social Science Associations
• Structural Competency Resources| Structural Competency
• Sociology of Disability & COVID-19 resource list| Laura Mauldin, crowd-sourced 
• Black Feminist Perspectives On Covid-19: A Reading List| Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo | Black Women Radicals
• Feminist Resources on the Pandemic| Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
• Public collection of COVID-19 Citations| Yale University Medical Library
• The Politics of COVID-19| The Syllabus | reading lists

The social and human sciences and the pandemic

• Missing the Revolution with Covid-19: On Hindsight and Ethnographic Expertise| Katherine Mason | Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology | text | public anthropology, expertise, ethnography
• Des virus, des humains, des savoirs, des épidémies: la construction sociale de quoi?| Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Frédéric Keck, and Anne Rasmussen | Carnet de L’EHESS | text | social construction, knowledge, human sciences | French
• Back to the Future in Milan| Ivan Bargna, Francesco Vietti, Giovanna Santanera, Giacomo Pozzi, and Ilaria Rebecca Bonelli | Pandemic Insights, Anthropology News | text | temporality, public anthropology, future, preparation, Milan
• Anthropology and anthropologists in times of crisis| Noel B. Salazar | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | anthropology, research, crisis 
• To value or re‐evaluate? On the anthropological perspective of a crisis| Somdeep Sen | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | anthropology, crisis, knowledge
• Critical Medical Anthropology Call to Action: Covid-19| Mark Nichter, Kristin Hedges, Elizabeth Cartwright, Sarah Raskin, Deon Claiborne | MEDANTHCOVID Idea Generator| text | action research, ethnography, biocommunicability, disinformation, social determinants of health, agricultural workers, health service research
• Introduction: urgent anthropological COVID‐19 forum| Laia Soto Bermant and Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov | Social Anthropology | text | anthropology, ethnography
• Data‐in‐terror: ad hoc local epistemologies and social life in crisis| Scott Stonington | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | crisis, information, data
• Reclaiming the social from ‘social distancing’| Geir Henning Presterudstuen | Social Anthropology | text | social science, knowledge
• Towards more equitable global health research in a COVID‐19 world| Anushka Ataullahjan, Jean‐Luc Kortenaar, Huma Qamar | Social Anthropology | text | global health research, Global South
• Pandemic vulnerabilities, mortality and empathy in fieldwork| Sharon J. Hepburn | Social Anthropology | text | vulnerability, fieldwork
• No Longer a Field| Rachel Howard | anthro{dendum} | text/photos | fieldwork, ethnography, research
• Material methods for a rapid‐response anthropology| Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani | Social Anthropology | text | stockpiling, research, methods, Norway
• Roundtable: “COVID-19: Views from the Field”| Baird Campbell, Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, Caitlyn Dye, Kristina Jacobsen, Rebekah Ciribassi, Sonia Qadir | Platypus – The CASTAC Blog | test | video – webinar | ethnography, fieldwork, public health
• The nation‐state, class, digital divides and social anthropology| David N. Gellner | Social Anthropology | text | anthropology, ethnography, crisis, UK, South Asia
• What is anthropology good for?’ Anthropologists working in public health interstices| Mayari Hengstermann | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | public health, anthropology, Guatemala
• Complex Social Networks are Missing in the Dominant COVID-19 Epidemic Models| Gianluca Manzo | Sociologica | text | compartmental models; ego-centered networks; scale-free networks; small-world networks; agent-based computational models
• Testing and Being Tested in Pandemic Times| David Stark | Sociologica | text | testing; accountability; sociology of testing; algorithmic selection; models; demonstrations
• Before and After (in and from Italy)| Giovanni Pizza | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | ethnography, History of Anthropology, Italy, pandemic, Philosophy, Temporality, the event

Politics of life, death, and health

• COVID-19 Shows We Need To Rethink Dying At Home| Renske Visser | Discover Society | text | death, place of death, mortality, ageing
• Why We Need to Talk About Death Right Now| Pinar Durgun | Nursing Clio | text | death, grief
• Life versus capital: COVID‐19 and the politics of life| Nicholas De Genova | Social Anthropology | text | biopower, capitalism
• COVID-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market| Vito Laterza and Louis Philippe Römer | Somatosphere | text | Biopower/biopolitics, capitalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, Europe, Global South, Africa
• Chronic Living in a Communicable World| Lenore Manderson and Ayo Wahlberg |Medical Anthropology | text| chronic disease, chronicity, illness work, prioritization
• Valuing health before and after the Corona-shock| Stefan Ecks | Glasgow Anthropology Network | governance, lockdown, value, health
• Pandemic vitality: on living and being alive in lockdown| Natassia Brenman |Social Anthropology |text |public health, politics, lockdown, UK
• Beware the Trolley Zealots| Gil Eyal | Sociologica | text | trolley problem; utilitarianism; bio-ethics; pastoral power; frames

Governance, preparedness, and public health 

• Religion, Law, and Bolsonaro’s Decree on Essential Services| Elina I. Hartikainen | Society for Cultural Anthropology | text | religion, distancing, executive power, Brazil
• A wink and a recommendation: thick description in the covid-19 pandemic| Rachel Irwin | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | text | public health, recommendations, cultural codes, Sweden
• It Could Happen Here| Sophie Harman | Discover Society | text | hegemonic power, pandemic preparedness, historical trauma, civil society
• The Chaos of Asynchronous Grief| S.A. Applin | Allegra Laboratory | text | protest, denial, grief, psychology, US
• Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Surveillance, Control And Punishment| Catarina Delaunay | Consciously Quarantined | text | public health, governance, surveillance, Portugal
• The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma| Joshua Craze and Naomi Pendle | African Arguments | governance, public health, governance, South Sudan
• Aid, Diplomacy, Autocracy: Entering the COVID-19 Crisis in Cambodia| Laurent Pordié | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | aid, autocracy, Cambodia, China, diplomacy, geopolitics
• COVID-19, Nature and the Political Ontology of China’s Party-State| Christos Lynteris | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | China, control, epidemic response, ideology, pandemic, statecraft, surveillance
• COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness and Response in West Africa: An Anthropological Lens Oumy Thiongane | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | Africa, Global health, pandemic, Senegal, social inequality, vulnerability
• Local response to the global pandemic (COVID‐19) in Bangladesh| Ala Uddin | Social Anthropology | text | public health, governance, Bangladesh
• Rethinking states of emergency| Susanna Trnka | Social Anthropology | text | crisis, state of emergency
• The legal void and COVID‐19 governance| Asya Karaseva | Social Anthropology | text | governance, states of exception, law, Russia
• Viral living| Timothy Gitzen | Social Anthropology | text | public health, everyday life, South Korea
• The pandemic present| Ryan P. Whitacre, Liza Stuart Buchbinder, Seth M. Holmes | Social Anthropology | text | public health, preparedness
• COVID‐19 and competitive markets of securitisation| Jonathan Newman | Social Anthropology | text | security, securitisation, technology, capitalism
• The Endemic Pandemic: Ruminations on American Biopower under COVID-19| Erik Larsen | Synapsis | text | history, biopower, neoliberal governance, US
• COVID-19 and Governmentality in Taiwan| Chia Yu Lien | Synapsis | text | governance, bioppower, Taiwan
• The Tragic Omissions of Governance by Curve| Holly Jean Buck | Strelka Mag | text | governance, public health, communication, modeling and projection, climate change
• Governing simulations: Intro to necroeconomics| Andrey Shevlyakov, Yu Gong, Yevheniia Berchul, and Bryan Wolff |  Strelka Mag | text | biopower, statistics, governance, necroeconomics
• COVID‐19, Dugnad and productive incompleteness: volunteer labour and crisis loans in Norway| Knut Christian Myhre | Social Anthropology | text | governance, political economy, solidarity, labor, Norway
• Taking matters into our own hands: reflections on the COVID‐19 pandemic in the Philippines| Jhaki Mendoza | Social Anthropology | text | public health, governance, lockdown, the Philippines
• Who Makes and Who Benefits: CEPI and the Global Effort for COVID-19 Vaccine?| Ishupal Singh Kang | Discover Society | text | vaccine research, underinvestment, intellectual property, governmental funding, philanthropy
• Systemic Integration and the Need for De-Integration in Pandemic Times| Elena Esposito | Sociologica | text | Social Integration; Systemic Integration; Inclusion/Exclusion; Systems Theory; Globalization; Differentiation of Society

Clinical encounters and infrastructures

• Ventilators Alone Won’t Save Us| Livia Garofalo | Sapiens | text | technology, emergency medicine
• Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political| D. Brendan Johnson | Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | text | Bioethics, activism, medical ethics, politics, medicine
• Pregnancy, Birth and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States| Robbie Davis-Floyd, Kim Gutschow and David A Schwartz | Medical Anthropology | text | pregnancy, midwives, United States, maternity care, birth, rapid-response 
• Fighting a Pandemic: Camus’s “The Plague” and the Physician’s Struggle to Treat in the COVID-19 Outbreak| James Belarde | Synapsis | text | literature, Camus
• “Without a patient for a text”: Medical Education in the Age of COVID| Steve Server | Synapsis | text | clinical experience, medical education, history, William Osler, distancing, US
• Who Qualifies for Patient Care During COVID-19?| Emilie Egger | Synapsis | text | total care, patient-centered care, empowerment, history

Structural violence, inequality, and vulnerability

• Decolonising Safeguarding In A Pandemic: Who Has The Power To Define Risk And Harm| Linnea Renton and Leona Vaughn | Discover Society | text | international development research, colonial logics, research partnerships, safeguarding 
• Race, Intersectionality and COVID-19| Ashlee Christoffersen | Discover Society | text | race, intersectionality, BAME, United Kingdom, migration, disability
• Solidarity Chat 1: Arrianna Planey| Aimi Hamraie (host), Arriana Planey (guest) | Contra* | audio – podcast | disability, race, class, eugenics
• Wenn aus Tätern Opfer werden: Freilassung von Gefangenen wegen des Coronavirus in Argentinien (#WitnessingCorona)| Kim Radestock | #WitnessingCorona Series (published by Blog Medizinethnologie and Boasblogs | text | law, vulnerability, incarceration, gendered violence, protest | German
• HIV: God’s punishment for sexual deviants or a holy gift against Corona?| Tankut Atuk | Somatosphere | text | HIV/AIDS, Sexuality, stigma, Turkey
• Colonial Wound, (Re)Infected: Pandemic in the Andes| Rebecca Irons | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | collective memory, gender, Military, Nationalism, pandemic, Peru, Postcolonial, Trauma
• What Comes After COVID-19| Eliza Williamson | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | Brazil, care, COIVD-19, post-crisis, structural vulnerabilities, Zika
• Hunger-20: COVID-19 Logistics in West Africa| Branwyn Poleykett | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | Biopolitics, Hunger, Senegal, supply chain

Outbreak narratives, racism, and disease stigma

• Fear of others: thinking biopolitics| Arpan Roy | Social Anthropology | text | biopolitics, pollution, body
• COVID 19 – QnA – On the Rise of Racism during Pandemic| Sandra Hyde | McGill Reporter | text | Quebec, Canada, racism, xenophobia
• The China–US blame game: claims‐making about the origin of a new virus| Gareth Davey | Social Anthropology | text | outbreak narrative, conspiracy theory, communication, US, China
• Why Hoard Toilet Paper? Dirt and Disorder in the 21st Century| Sarah L. Berry | Synapsis | text | hygiene, xenophobia, stockpiling

Representations of disease and intervention

• Underestimation/complacency: two comments on the language of warfare| Marilyn Strathern | Social Anthropology | text | language, metaphor, UK
• Acting Fatally on the Strength of the Martial Metaphor| Lorenzo Servitje | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | Biopolitics, Epidemic, Language, Metaphor, Military, Narrative, War
• Arguments for a New Aesthetic of Presence| Chiara Cappelletto | Critical Inquiry | text | representation, epidemic of signification, narrative, vulnerability
• A pandemic is not a war: COVID‐19 urgent anthropological reflections| Saiba Varma |  Social Anthropology | text | metaphor, war
• The ‘Invisible Enemy’: A Critical Look at the Use of Military Metaphors and Anthropomorphisation During The COVID-19 Pandemic| James Fotherby | Consciously Quarantined | text | language, metaphor, military, UK
• Pandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing COVID‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’| Rebecca Irons | Social Anthropology | text | language, classification, syndemic 

Mental health and the public life of pandemic feelings

• Research in Times of Crisis: Caring for Researchers’ Mental Health in the Covid-19 Era| An Ansoms | Items, SSRC | text | research, higher education, mental health
• That Feeling May Be Your Privilege Cracking: What COVID can teach us about inequity and compassion| Rebecca Lester | Anthropology in Mind | text| psychology, privilege, reflexivity
• Mental Health Avenues Amidst A Global Pandemic: Conceptualising The Biosocial Medical Framework Within Urban ‘Green Spaces’| Tiffany Loera | Consciously Quarantined | text | mental health, public space, UK
• Feeling Remote: COVID-19 in an Isolated State| Bríd Phillips | Synapsis | text | anxiety, stress, healthcare workers, Australia
• Coronashame| Brian J. Troth | Synapsis | text | morality, shame, disgust, stigma

From health communications to conspiracy theories

• God’s Daily Briefings: Religious Leadership in a Global Pandemic| Tilak Parekh | Consciously Quarantined | text | public health, religion, communication, India
• Memes, Migrants, And The Epidemiological Imagination| Josh Babcock | Consciously Quarantined | text | communication, social media, Singapore
• ‘To all the anti‐vaxxers out there…’: ethnography of the public controversy about vaccination in the time of COVID‐19| Jean‐Yves Durand and Manuela Ivone Cunha | Social Anthropology | text | controversy, vaccine refusal, Portugal, US
• When rumours fly like helicopters: an international conspiracy ‘language’ for the new reality?| Alexandra Arkhipova and Ian Brodie | Social Anthropology | text | conspiracy, information
• Corona conspiracies: a call for urgent anthropological attention| Senem Kaptan | Social Anthropology | text | knowledge, conspiracy, communication, narrative, Turkey
• Health Messaging and Napkin Epidemiology in the Netherlands| Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | data, Epidemic, infodemic, Netherlands, pandemic, surveillance, transparency
• How We Tweet About Coronavirus, and Why: A Computational Anthropological Mapping of Political Attention on Danish Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic| Samantha Breslin, Thyge Ryom Enggaard, Anders Blok, Tobias Gårdhus and Morten Axel Pedersen | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | Affect, computational mapping, COVID-19, Denmark, twitter
• Caring In The Time Of Corona: Technological Possibilities And Limitations| Matthew Lariviere | The Age of COVID-19, AAGE | text | aging, care, technologies, UK

Distancing, sociality and solidarity

• Living in bubbles during the coronavirus pandemic: insights from New Zealand| Nicholas J. Long et al. | LSE Research Online [rapid research report] | text | bubbles, distancing, containment, New Zealand, risk, care
• Bursting the Bubble Fallacy: Lockdown and the Problematic Concept of ‘Home’| Susanna Trnka and Sharyn Graeme Davies | The Spinoff | text | bubbles, social distancing, sociality, home, New Zealand
• Versatile Houses and Flexible Bodies in Times of Coronavirus in Buenos Aires| María Florencia Blanco Esmoris and Nemesia Hijós | #WitnessingCorona Series (published by Blog Medizinethnologie and Boasblogs) | text | confinement, mandatory isolation, bodies, productivity, solidarity, Argentina
• Unintended Impacts of COVID-19 Social Distancing| Thurka Sangaramoorthy | BMJ Medical Humanities blog | text | social distancing, stigma, HIV, public health and psychology
• Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective| Vincenzo Romania | Sociologica | text | social distance; Goffman; anomie; social theory
• From sociality to social distancing: reversing values of solidarity in Italy| Milena Marchesi | Social Anthropology | text | sociality, solidarity, distancing, Italy
• The Ethics of Social Distancing| Nicholas G. Evans | The Philosophers’ Magazine | text | distancing, ethics, philosophy 
• Norway’s response to Covid-19 and the Janus face of Nordic trust| Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Corona Times | text | public health, trust, solidarity, social norms, Norway
• Jishuku, social distancing and care in the time of COVID‐19 in Japan| Makoto Nishi | Social Anthropology | text | public health, distancing, Japan
• On the proximity of distancing: notes on Northern Italy| Francesco Vacchiano | Social Anthropology | text | public health, distancing, Italy
• Touch in the new ‘1.5‐metre society’| Josien de Klerk | Social Anthropology | text | everyday life, distancing
• COVID and Community| Steven Shapin | Los Angeles Review of Books | text | community, social norms, distancing, access ritual, risk
• All in this together? Isolation and housing in ‘lockdown London’| Constance Smith | Social Anthropology | text | isolation, housing, UK

Masks

• Behind the Beak: Plague Doctor Iconography in 2020| Madeleine Mant | Synapsis | text | plague doctor, history, masking
• The myth of masks: a tale of risk selection in the COVID‐19 pandemic| Runya Qiaoan | Social Anthropology | text | risk, masks
• The national(ist) necropolitics of masks| Nicolette Makovicky | Social Anthropology | text | masks, purity and pollution

Migration and borders

• The Cost of Medical Marginalization: Undocumented Mothers and Health Access in the Time of COVID-19| Elizabeth Farfán-Santos | Latino Rebels | text | medical marginalization, immigrant health, women’s health
• What COVID-19 Reveals about Borders and Citizenship: Europe’s Migrants on Their Way Back Home (#WitnessingCorona)| Tunay Altay | #WitnessingCorona Series (published by Blog Medizinethnologie and Boasblogs | text | migration, inequality, state of emergency
• Prisoners of Space: How the COVID-19 Lockdown Highlights Inequalities in Ageing| Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, and Sophia Yarker | Discover Society | text | elderly people, lockdown, inequity, neighborhoods
• Caring for Italy: The Solidarity of Filipino Women Workers| Mariachiara Ficarelli | Society for Cultural Anthropology | text | caregivers, migrant workers, domestic work, activism, solidarity, Italy 
• Disrupting Transmission: What the Coronavirus Crisis Tells Us About The Geography of the Economy| Andrew Leyshon | Discover Society | text | global interconnectedness, logistics, distribution networks, economy, United Kingdom
• When State Racism and Austerity Meet The Pandemic: The Death of a Syrian Refugee In Hotel Detention| Smina Akhtar | Discover Society | text | refugee crisis, migration, asylum accomodation, austerity
• Keeping Social Distance And Keeping Them Out| Tom Marshall and Chrysi Kyratsou | Allegra Laboratory | text | refugees, migration, space, distancing, Greece
• Qatar, the Coronavirus, and Cordons Sanitaires: Migrant Workers and the Use of Public Health to Define the Nation| Natasha N. Iskander | Items, SSRC | text | migration, foreign workers, labor, vulnerability, Qatar
• What does COVID‐19 distract us from? A migration studies perspective on the inequities of attention| Asia Della Rosa, Asher Goldstein | Social Anthropology | text | migration, inequality, vulnerability, structural violence
• Ground glass: the future after COVID‐19?| Martin Lundsteen | Social Anthropology | text | borders, vulnerability
• Key Considerations for COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia: Transnational Migrants, Informal Workers, and People Living in Informal Settlements| Megan Schmidt-Sane, Santiago Ripoll and Annie Wilkinson | Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform | text – brief | migration, recommendations, Southeast Asia
• The border and the pandemic| Neil Vallelly | Social Anthropology | text | borders, capitalism

Everyday life under quarantine and after

• Buying Time in a Prosperous Land: Some musings on human-viral relations from the streets of Amsterdam| Eileen Moyer | City and Society | text | citizenship, responsibilization, Netherlands, human-viral relations, multispecies anthropology 
• Coronavirus and changing conditions for crime| Jennifer Fleetwood, John Lea, Svenja Bromberg and Theo Kindynis | Discover Society | text | crime rates, transgression, organised crime, mutual aid
• Neoliberal Vogue and the Pandemic in Bangladesh| Zahir Ahmed | Pandemic Insights, Anthropology News | text | Bangladesh, neoliberalism, lockdown
• Looking into the past, living in the future| Nikolaos Olma | Social Anthropology | text | distancing, quarantine, everyday life, temporality
• Visual art experience during the coronavirus pandemic| Kirill Chunikhin | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | social media, communication, everyday life, quarantine
• Writing poetry, writing the oceans in pandemic times| Rose Boswell | Corona Times | text | writing, anthropology, poetry, temporality, South Africa
• Metabolic publics: a pandemic comedy?| Anton Nikolotov | Social Anthropology | text | humor, social media, Russia
• Document the quotidian transformations of the pandemic| Rune Steenberg and Tore Steenberg Reyhé | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | everyday life, ethnography, methods
• The coronavirus hit us strong: a small‐scale narrative| Gonçalo Salvaterra | Social Anthropology | text | everyday life, Guinea‐Bissau
• “There Are Worse Places To Spend A Lockdown”: Privileged And At Risk British Retirees In Spain| Emma Fàbrega | The Age of COVID-19, AAGE | text | aging, privilege, risk, Spain

Historical perspectives

• A historical perspective on how pandemics end| Jeremy Greene (guest) | CNBC News | video – interview | history, public health, governance
• Pandemic Narratives and the Historian| Alex Longstaff, Alison Bashford, Simukai Chigudu, Deborah Coen, Richard Keller, Julie Livingston, Nayan Shah, and Paul Weindling | Los Angeles Review of Books | text | public health, global health, narrative, history
• From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most| Lizzie Wade | Science | text | history, plague, 1918 flu, social determinants of health, vulnerability
• From Spanish Flu to COVID-19: Race, Class and Reopening St. Louis| Ezelle Sanford III and Chelsey Carter | Riverfront Times | text | history, 1918 flu, race, racism, class, US
• On epidemiological ruination| Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins and Daniel Keech | Social Anthropology | text (paywalled) | history, crisis, death, temporality
• How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now| Frank Snowden | Democracy Now | video – interview | history, public health, governance

Environment, the Anthropocene, and post-human perspectives

• Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change| David Blanchon, Frédéric Keck, François-Michel Le Tourneau, Stéphane Tonnelat , and Adriana Zuniga-Teran | Metropolitics | text | sentinel, sentinel territories, environment, climate change, environment, risk, preparedness, mitigation
• Letter from the (un)seen virus: (post)humanist perspective in corona times| Nasima Selim | Social Anthropology | text | narrative, multipsecies
• COVID‐19 as the primary agent| Anna Kawalec | Social Anthropology | text | anthropocentrism, multispecies
• Telling the Story of the Pandemic| Nayanika Mathur | COVID-19 Forum III, Somatosphere | text | climate crisis, conservationism, human-nonhuman relations, Narrative, nature, pandemic, self-reflexivity, storytelling
• Events of Disruptive Transformation| Zoltán Boldizsár Simon | Somatosphere | text | Environment, History, The Anthropocene

Learning, teaching, and research

• K-12 Learning During a Pandemic: Why We Need to Slow Down for Mental Health’s Sake| Elizabeth Farfán-Santos | Latino Rebels | text | mental health, child advocacy, public education
• Learning in the Quarantine| Mario Hinojosa and Julio R. Varela (hosts), Elizabeth Farfán-Santos and Pedro Noguera (guests) | In The Thick | audio – podcast | education, online learning, racial disparity
• Digital Learning| Anna Harris and Andrea Wojcik | Society for Cultural Anthropology | text | digital learning, education, medical students, clinical contact, bodies
• Once upon a pandemic: a meditation on academic life in corona times| Eddie Ombagi | Corona Times | text | higher education, everyday life, governance, Kenya
• Universities go online during the pandemic: who reaps the profits?| Mariya Ivancheva and Rebecca Swartz | Corona Times | text | higher education, political economy, Global South, South Africa
• Creativity and Embodied Practice during the ‘Shift Online’| Emily Stevenson | Pandemic Diaries, American Ethnologist | text | research, everyday life, creativity, UK
• Against Class-as-Usual| Scott Ross | Pandemic Diaries, American Ethnologist | text | higher education, remote teaching, technology, surveillance, US
• A Primer on COVID-19| Mark Nichter | MEDANTHCOVID Idea Generator | text – slides |public health, teaching tools
• COVID‐19 and climate change reactions: STS potential of online research| Olga V. Bychkova | Social Anthropology | text | research, methods, climate change, STS, Russia