COVID-19

How are COVID-19 educational disruptions characterized in different settings? What is being foregrounded and obscured -- as problems, and as needed response?

What actions are called for to address the problems and vulnerabilities identified in this commentary?

How are faith leaders (and religious communities) responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of understanding and grief are they supporting? What debates are there about spiritual and religious responses to the pandemic?

Jul 30 2020: Reflections & Future Directions

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How are big data and algorithmic tools being used in response to COVID-19 (tracking people and goods, in diagnostic and therapeutic efforts etc), and how does this compare with their use in other pandemics?

What kinds of education about COVID-19 has been mobilized and planned?

Teaching COVID-19 as Environmental Injustice

I’ll teach with the COVID Community Case Study Assignment in a fall...Read more

What plans do you have to teach with assignments in the COVID-19 Ethnographic Portfolio Project? See https://disaster-sts-network.org/content/covid-19-student-ethnographic-portfolio-project/essay

COVID-19 COLLABORATION CALL: PROJECT REFLECTIONS & DIRECTIONS

0 Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Collaboration Biographies

What COVID-19 data visualizations are in circulation and to what effect?

A collection of commissioned responses from individual scholars and exemplary institutional responses from universities and scholarly societies, published by the Network of Concerned AcademicsRead more

Executive Order N-54-20

Gavin Newsom's April 23, 2020 order that seeks to help limit in-person contact, alleviate financial struggles, and enable environmental reviews to proceed during COVID-19.Read more

Shuar Testimony on COVID-19 - Risk Communication

Manuel is a Shuar leader in the Kuamar community in Ecuador. In June 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19. For days he and his community of 120 people requested medical attention from Ecuador's National Health System (NHS). They received none. When this audio went viral along with other voices...Read more