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 …
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 »
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 »
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 …
Farm labor is precarious work, reflecting both the vulnerabilities of migrant farmworkers and the nature of farms as workplaces. Public regulators rarely enforce labor standards on farms, and labor unions are uncommon. Covid-19 exacerbates these risks because farmworkers labor, and often live, in conditions that make social distancing difficult. Our proposed research asks how migrant …
Workplace Challenges and Responses to Covid-19 among Migrant Farmworkers Read More »
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 …
In March 2020, the Oyo state government of Nigeria introduced lockdowns measures including stay-at-home orders, closure of markets and schools, and curfew to control further spread of Covid-19 in the state. Although all citizens are affected by the lockdown measures, those working in the informal sector of the economy, who own small businesses and earn …
