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We are compiling a running list of commentary on the Covid-19 pandemic from perspectives and sensibilities broadly relevant to third world approaches to international law (listed below in chronological order). Please feel free to send us any suggestions of TWAIL-related material for inclusion by email to submissions@twailr.com.
- Asia Art Activism, ‘Un-racialising the coronavirus epidemic’, 21 February 2020
- Mike Davis, ‘Socialism as Counter-Pandemic’, Legal Form, 14 March 2020
- Tendayi Achiume, ‘States should take action against COVID-19-related expressions of xenophobia, says UN expert’, United Nations, 21 March 2020
- Olivia Rutazibwa, ‘The corona pandemic blows the lid off the idea of Western superiority’, Mondiaal Nieuws, 23 March 2020
- Ntina Tzouvala, ‘COVID-19, international law and the battle for framing the crisis’, ILA Reporter, 25 March 2020
- Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves & Rodrick Wallace, ‘Covid-19 and Circuits of Capital’ Monthly Review, 27 March 2020
- International Economic Law Collective, ‘International Economic Law and COVID-19’, Critical Legal Thinking, 27 March 2020
- Adam Hanieh, ‘This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such‘, Verso, 27 March 2020
- Matiangai Sirleaf, ‘COVID-19 and Allocating Responsibility for Pandemics’, Jurist, 31 March 2020
- Kojo Koram, ‘Coronavirus Could Transform the International Order’, Tribune, 31 March 2020
- Ntina Tzouvala, ‘The Combined and Uneven Geography of COVID-19, or on Law, Capitalism and Disease ’, Opinio Juris, 2 April 2020
- Arundhati Roy, ‘The Pandemic is a Portal’, Financial Times, 3 April 2020
- Diana Ojeda & Lina Pinto García, ‘La militarización de la vida durante la guerra, el “posconflicto” y la pandemia de COVID-19’ / ‘The militarization of life under war, “post-conflict,” and the COVID-19 crisis’, Platypus, 6 April 2020
- Christine Schwobel-Patel, ‘We Don’t Need A ‘War’ Against Coronavirus. We Need Solidarity’, Al-Jazeera, 6 April 2020
- Matiangai Sirleaf, ‘COVID-19 and the Racialization of Diseases’ (Part I & Part II), Opinio Juris, 7 April 2020
- Catherine Connolly, ‘War and the Coronavirus Pandemic’ TWAILR: Reflections #16/2020, 9 April 2020
- Derek Gregory, ‘Covid-19 and armed conflict’, Geographical Imaginations, 16 April 2020
- Tendayi Achiume, ‘Entrepreneurs of intolerance’ compound COVID-19 racist backlash’, UN News Podcast “Lid Is On”, 17 April 2020
- Michael Fakhri, in conversation with Luis Eslava, Clair Gammage & Annamaria La Chimia, ‘COVID-19, International Economic Law, and the Right to Food’, International Economic Law Collective Conversation #5, 17 April 2020
- Kazuhito Yamashita, ‘Will the COVID-19 pandemic cause a food crisis?’, Japan Times, 17 April 2020
- Alex Lenferna, ‘The Solution to the Coronavirus Recession Is a Global Green New Deal‘, Jacobin, 17 April 2020
- Rohini Sen, ‘Critical Thinking in Times of Crisis: International Law, Critical Education and COVID-19‘, Socio-Legal Review, 19 April 2020
- Priya Gupta, ‘Notes on Race during COVID-19’, Corona Journal, 20 April 2020
- Ntina Tzouvala, in conversation with Dimitrios Kourtis, ‘TWAIL discourse in the context of the current crisis’, University of Nicosia School of Law Podcast “COVID-19: Καθεστώς Εξαίρεσης;” (“Covid-19: State of Exception?”), 20 April 2020
- Noha Aboueldahab, ‘Pandemic politics: Coronavirus: War-talk or crisis-talk?’, Brookings Institution, 22 April 2020
- Nicole Aschoff, ‘The Global South Must Be Freed of Its Debt Servitude’, Jacobin, 23 April 2020
- Lorenzo Cotula & Brendan Schwartz, ‘COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?’, International Institute for Environment & Development, 24 April 2020
- Obiora Okafor, ‘Solidarity key to post COVID-19 response’, Open Global Rights, 28 April 2020
- Mike Davis, ‘C’est La Lutte Finale‘, Progressive International, 30 April 2020
- María del Rosario Acosta, ‘Tocarnos con la voz’, Philosopher en temps d’épidémie, 2 May 2020
- Nithin Ramakrishnan, ‘The WHO’s Failures Are a Red Herring. A 2005 Pact Is the Real Problem‘, The Wire, 2 May 2020
- Maria Khristine Alvarez & Joshua Miguel Makalintal, ‘What “relief” for the poor should really look like‘, Al-Jazeera, 3 May 2020
- James T. Gathii, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Titilayo Adebola & Nthope Mapefane, ‘Symposium on COVID-19 and International Economic Law in the Global South: Introduction’, Afronomics Law, 3 May 2020
>> introducing a month-long symposium with important pieces being published every day during May 2020 on Afronomics Law
- Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, CoronaShock: A Virus and the World, 5 May 2020
- Pino Schirripa, ‘Storie virali: Contagio e segregazione coloniale’, Treccani, 6 Maggio 2020
- Obiora Okafor, ‘UN expert urges adoption of draft declaration on international solidarity’, United Nations, 6 May 2020
- IEL Collective, ‘COVID-19 and the Precarity of International Investment Law‘, 6 May 2020
- Marina Veličković, ‘Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to Covid-19‘ Critical Legal Thinking, 6 May 2020
- Timothy Masuko, ‘Globalisation and COVID-19: What can African International Economic Law Learn?’, Afronomics Law, 8 May 2020
- Ayça Çubukçu, Anthony Alessanddrini, Noura Erakat & Christina Heatherton, virtual conversation on ‘The Fate of Internationalism: Talking Solidarity in a Pandemic’, 8 May 2020
- Nick Dearden, ‘The Global South’s Coronavirus Debt Crisis’, Tribune, 10 May 2020
- Ishupal Singh Kang, ‘Who Makes and Who Benefits: CEPI and the Global Effort for Covid19 Vaccine‘, Discover Society, 12 May 2020
- Matiangai Sirleaf, ‘Africa, COVID-19 and Responsibility’, Afronomics Law, 12 May 2020
- Azeezah Kanji, ‘War Is Not a Metaphor‘, Jadaliyya, 12 May 2020
- Sona Prakash, ‘How Capitalism and Other Viruses Are Ravaging the Global South‘, Jacobin, 16 May 2020
- Ghassan Hage, ‘The haunting figure of the useless academic: Critical thinking in coronavirus time‘ (2020) European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 May 2020
- Issam Adwan, ‘Palestinian Prisoners Amid COVID-19 Outbreak‘, Jadaliyya, 16 May 2020
- Transnational Institute & Corporate Europe Observatory, ‘Cashing in on the pandemic: how lawyers are preparing to sue states over COVID-19 response measures‘, 18 May 2020
- M. Sornarajah, in conversation with Paolo Vargiu, Jean Ho & Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, ‘COVID-19 & International Investment Law‘, IEL Collective Conversation #7, 18 May 2020
- Ambreena Manji, ‘Home in a Time of Covid‘, Review of African Political Economy, 20 May 2020
- Dwaipayan Banerjee, ‘Between Pandemia and Pandemonium‘, Social Text Online, 28 May 2020
- George Kibala Bauer, ‘Beyond the Western Gaze‘, Africa is a Country, 29 May 2020
- Adam Hanieh in conversation with Alex Doherty, ‘Triple Shock in the Global South: Oil, Debt & Covid-19‘, Politics Theory Other podcast, 1 June 2020
- Helen Yaffe, ‘Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic‘, CounterPunch, 4 June 2020
- Vijay Prashad, ‘Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19‘, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, 18 June 2020
- Oishik Sirkar, ‘Postcolonial Liberalism’s Double Binds‘, Critical Legal Thinking, 19 June 2020
- Robert Knox & Ntina Tzouvala, ‘Conversation on International Law and Critique in time of COVID-19‘, Lauterpacht Centre International Law and Political Engagement (ILPE) series, 19 June 2020
Other series and ongoing collections with regular commentaries on Covid-19
- Afronomics Law, Symposium on COVID-19 and International Economic Law in the Global South & follow-up Webinar Series
- Tricontinental Institute for Social Research Newsletters
- Africa is a Country Covid-19 Dispatches
- The Red Nation podcast
- Jadaliyya podcast series: Politics in the Time of Corona
- CoronaJournal: online journal chronicling life with the corona pandemic
- Covid-19 Chronicles video interviews
- Discover Society Covid-19 Chronicles
