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CMcGuire: Moral Economy

Connie McGuire

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WHAT DOES THIS IMAGE TELL US ABOUT HOW ESSENTIAL WORKERS ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED?

The sign pictured talks about 3 heroes. A moral economy of COVID-19: Essential workers are called heroes in order to justify the risks they must take with their lives.

We Love Our Essential Workers

Connie saw this homemade sign in Orange, California.

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?