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1. Securitization, Surveillance and the Logics of Algorithms
“We have to keep in mind, that we are really standing to lose a lot of rights, if these kind of surveillance technologies do not end with the state of exception”
2. Inequality in the (Post)-Pandemic City: The Class Dimension of Lockdown in South Asia
Interview with Atreyee Sen, a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex
“What this pandemic has taught people, is to engage with the existing economic inequalities in the city”
3. Weaponized Health Information
Interview with Eugenia Kuznetsova, research fellow at Kyiv School of Economics
“Corona-related disinformation deepens the existing inequalities in the occupied territories and puts the lives of the most vulnerable categories at risk”
4. Urban Environments in Eastern Europe
Interview with anthropologist Michał Murawski, University College London
“Urban capitalism has become nastier and more aggressive since the lockdown”
5. Public Health and Urban Preparedness
Interview with Hinta Meijerink from the The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
“The impact of COVID-19 and the recommended measures revealed underlying inequity in the society, most prominently in urban areas. Hopefully, the experience from this pandemic will result in prioritization of public health as well as addressing inequality in urban areas”
6. Governance of Mobility During the Pandemic in China
Essay by Minhua Ling from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Amid our global struggles with the often asymptomatic yet highly contagious disease has arisen much prejudice and national and racial discrimination”
7. The Urban Economic Crisis
Astrid Haas from the International Growth Center in Kampala, DRC
“It is important to remember that it is not a health or an economic crisis for many people. The economy is a part of their own health crisis, particularly in the cities”
8. The Dark Side of Modernization
“As far as life on the planet is concerned, together with extinction, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases may be said to be one of modernization’s major and long-lasting products”
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