Blogs
Trouble During the Covid Lockdown: Health and Security Challenges in Lagos, Nigeria
Ridwan Balogun The emergence of the corona virus with its attendant destruction, loss and setbacks, shocked the entire world, including Nigerians ...
A game of light and shadow: manufacturing death and defending life in the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
José Claudio de Souza Alves (UFRRJ), Carly Machado (UFRRJ), Adriano de Araujo (Fórum Grita Baixada), Giulia Escuri (UFRRJ). It was Ash Wednesday in ...
“They took away our fear”: Popular power against COVID-19 and the Chilean state
Martín de Gregorio (Utrecht University) On Friday October 18, 2019, the government closed the entire network of Santiago metro stations. ...
Stay at home? Essential non-compliance with the State of Emergency in the urban margins of Maputo.
Tirso H. Sitoe and Nikkie Wiegink* My son, I have nothing to eat. We are told at some point to stay home. Here, I’m at home and ...
The pandemic, social isolation and government on the margins: notes from the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro
Edson Miagusko (UFFRJ) and Jonathan W.B. Da Motta (UNICAMP) Like elsewhere in the world, Brazil remains under the coronavirus pandemic. With ...
Corona Governance in Poor Neighborhoods and Settlements of Guatemala City.
Karla M. López They hardly go there … even the police are afraid of what they hear in the neighborhood (neighbor zone 7). Lack of police is ...
Corona Governance in the Education Sector
Jana Ambré Since February and March 2020, the lives and education of youth across the globe have been widely impacted by the emergence of the ...
Securing White Australia: Borders, Viruses, Lockdown
Andy Fuller Some twelve plus months into the Covid 19 Era, by numerous reckonings, Australia can be regarded as having done well. The number of cases is ...
‘Getting sick around here is a normal thing’: Precarity, exceptionality and governance in Nairobi’s ‘slums’ in 2020.
This is a guest blog by Mercy Gitonga & Joost Fontein (University of Johannesburg) When, in late October 2020, we asked a ‘village elder’ in ...
Coronavirus, Religion, and Vigilantism in the Nigerian City of Jos
Murtala Ibrahim Jos is one of the largest cities in central Nigeria and serves as capital of Plateau State. The emergence of coronavirus as a ...