Virus and the City: Urban Experiences in Self-Isolation
The way we make sense of space has radically changed as a novel Coronavirus spread, with no clear end in […]
Brave New Normal World
When politicians begin to speak of a post-corona “new normality”, what does that imply? And why should we be concerned?
The Corona Diaries
Welcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The
Viralscapes. The bodies of others after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals a vital-lethal entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies at a global scale. This post first draws
Eerie desires for the authoritarian state. Covid-19 updates from Italy.
I have been – like anyone else in Italy – in quarantine for the past three weeks. Optimistically, Italy will
Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the
The return of the plague-spreader
Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the
On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic
Many academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists,
Larissa’s Story: Behind the Migration Crisis Headlines
In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras,
At Odds with the Impulse: Muslim Humanitarianism and its Exclusions in Northern Pakistan
Drawing on fieldwork undertaken between 2004 and 2013 in Gilgit Town, the multi-sectarian capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern