The proposed project examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on everyday family life and learning in a diverse cross-section of US households. We probe how social, health and educational needs are being negotiated within each household, and how families view and interpret their experiences. Members of 40 households (20 in Los Angeles, and 20 …
The Covid-19 pandemic challenges many aspects of public health systems, including health communication. How do you persuade someone of the need for face masks? Or to stay six feet away from others? What about convincing people to do it all again when the next wave arrives? We take steps toward addressing these challenges by focusing …
Persuasiveness of Covid-19 Health Messages: Effects of Psycholinguistic Variables Read More »
The Covid-19 pandemic has been described as the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two (UNDP, 2020), with detrimental effects on global healthcare systems and human life. This has resulted in several effects including high morbidity, gender-based violence, and limited access to basic social services, requiring urgent multisectoral efforts through established social structures …
The research aims to map and analyze the role of religious ideas, practices, and institutions in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, focusing on the speeches produced by Christian religious leaders in the mass media and social networks, in addition to the use of public TV for political and religious proselytism. The research is …
Christian Churches, Religious Media, and the Management of Covid-19 in Brazil Read More »
This project explores the convergence of right-wing hate speech and panic around the Covid-19 pandemic in India. In particular, I study the Islamophobic reactions to the Covid-19 crisis in India, where the pandemic has exacerbated the right-wing rhetoric against Muslims through fake news circulating over social media platforms. Many viral videos and images have unfairly …
Hate in the Time of the Virus: Covid-19, Fake News, and Islamophobia in India Read More »
Individuals with chronic illnesses or disabilities, as well as those over the age of 65, occupy the highest risk categories for contracting and dying from Covid-19. This project focuses on these invisible frontlines of care: the millions of chronically ill and/or elderly Americans who are not institutionalized and instead receiving care at home from family …
Left in the Care of One: Spousal Caregiving in the Age of Covid-19 Read More »
Covid-19 is dramatically affecting the Amazonian regions of Peru. Facing an overwhelming challenge, indigenous peoples’ organizations have deployed a networked response and a very agile reaction to the pandemic. They have self-organized crafting adapted logistics, developing crowd-sourced maps, putting together food chains among river communities, and recovering traditional knowledge on endemic plants with therapeutic value. …
Collaborative Research on the Indigenous Response to the Pandemic in the Peruvian Amazon Read More »
As fears and insecurities about the coronavirus mount among Americans, so too have attacks on Asian Americans. They have been stabbed, beaten, bullied, spit on, pushed, harassed, and vilified based on the false assumption that they are to blame for the spread of Covid-19. Faulting China for the origin and spread of the coronavirus, the …
The Impact of Anti-Asian Hate in the Wake of Covid-19 Read More »
This project investigates the contentious interactions involving the policies of social distancing implemented in response to Covid-19 in Brazil. The Brazilian case is unique because it is one of the epicenters of the Covid-19 epidemic today. This research analyzes the contentious interactions that oppose on one side supporters of policies of isolation (the press called …
In India, a recent spate of floods has sharpened focus on the pivotal role of urban planning, land use in particular, in protecting ecosystems. Such events are also a reminder that city-regions are hardly homogeneous unified systems but a palimpsest of subsystems with underlying socio-economic disparities. This study will explore how communities that are typically …
When Hazards Collide: Exploring Everyday Adaptations to Extraordinary Events Read More »
