The rapid rise of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has been showing how unprepared societies are to respond to public health emergencies. Making matters worse, the production of ignorance in a global arena promoted by society and political leaders has been an interesting sociological phenomenon of the 2020’s coronavirus crisis. In …
New York City was the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 with many low-income Hispanic workers still reeling from its economic and health impacts. Drawing on a survey conducted in collaboration with the Mexican Coalition of New York City, administrative and census data, as well as 20 in-depth interviews, we propose a mixed-method …
Throughout Nairobi’s history, urban poor communities have been targeted by containment measures—for racial reasons, out of public health concerns, for economic purposes, or for political gains. This project compares current containment measures to combat Covid-19 with this history. It looks at poor residents’ responses to containment both historical and current, and how containment measures are …
This proposal makes visible the experiences and insights of those living under Covid-19 in insecure spaces. In particular, this project partners five Northern-based scholars with five different research associates from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, who will maintain semistructured diaries over a period of eight weeks. Diarists will observe and record three …
Lockdown Diaries: Pandemic Stories from the Field Read More »
Young voters are one of the most overlooked—and negatively represented—populations in US elections, and their representation and inclusion in this upcoming presidential election is at an even greater stake than ever before. Their voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election will undoubtedly be affected by the ongoing global pandemic for two primary reasons: First, the …
One of the key factors in compliance with costly and disruptive public health and other public policy interventions may be whether the general public regard the intervention as an overreaction or an appropriate response. While previous research has examined objective or expert judgments of “overreaction” in very constrained cases, there is no research on lay …
Understanding Intuitive Judgments of “Overreaction” Read More »
Among the many reasons Covid-19 continues to be experienced as a stressful event worldwide and especially in Africa are the number of deaths linked to the disease, the absence of a cure, the extended lockdown, the impact it is having on fragile national and household economies in Africa, the weak nature of African health and …
Humor as a Semiotic Resource: Coping with Covid-19 Stress in Africa Read More »
This project addresses the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the current outbreak. Using daily auto-ethnographic video diaries, interviews, language mapping methodologies, and analysis of health messaging about Covid-19 from state, city, and community institutions as …
What are the pre-existing structural conditions that influence how Black communities are impacted by Covid-19? How do Black communities disproportionately affected by Covid-19 respond to the compounded insecurities exacerbated by the pandemic? What pedagogies of everyday resistance have these communities developed to counter the social/racial impact of the virus? How may their local responses inform …
