COVID19 in Latin America
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In the following months we will be discussing the effects of COVID19 across Latin America. We will be able to read the opinions, thoughts, reflections of scholars, activists and researchers from different parts of Latin America. The space is open to everyone interested in offering a critical and sustained opinion of the cultural significance and uniqueness that the pandemic poses for this part of the Global South.
Contact us if you are interested in sending a short text (1000-1500 words).
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli e Lavinia Micheli Sapienza, Università di Roma Missione Etnologica Italiana in Messico El enfoque del análisis siguiente,… Read More »Cuidado de la salud y sostenibilidad económica: las comunidades indígenas frente a la pandemia by Anna Giulia Macchiarelli e Lavinia Micheli
Bolivia found itself fighting Covid-19 during a period of political turmoil. The interim government, formed in November 2019 after Evo… Read More »Bolivia under Covid-19: the interim government and autonomous responses, by Jonathan Alderman
During lockdown, in Santa Cruz de La Sierra a community of people got together and for over two months cooked… Read More »Solidarity and Community support during COVID19, Bolivia
Amy Penfield The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK were reported on January 29th 2020. In the early… Read More »We all have a role to play in indigenous exposure to coronavirus, by Amy Penfield, University of Bristol
Anthropologists and other researchers studying reproductive issues in Latin America have been alarmed by the effects of the pandemic on… Read More »COVID-19 AND WOMEN’S WORSENING ACCESS TO ILLEGAL AND LEGAL ABORTION IN BRAZIL, Mariana Pitta Lima and Cecilia McCallum
Andrés Napurí Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Antes de que la pandemia llegase a este continente, Walter Panduro estaba… Read More »Tújpawa: los arreboles en el cielo by Andrés Napurí, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
The estimated 4 million waste-pickers in Latin America are responsible for most of the recycling that goes on in the… Read More »COVID Catadores by Patrick O’Hare and Alex Cardoso
Illustration by Marinho (@m_ciano) a Brazilian transman, art student at UFBA Vicente is a black trans man resident in a… Read More »Transmasculinity and Covid-19 in Brazil: Fear upon Fear by Anne Alencar Monteiro and Cecilia McCallum
Last week it was announced that the UK will be leading in post-El Niño Costero reconstructions in Peru https://elcomercio.pe/economia/peru/reino-unido-le-agradecio-al-peru-por-elegirlo-para-efectuar-las-obras-de-reconstruccion-con-cambios-nndc-noticia/. In… Read More »Delivering computer tablets to a rural area in northern Peru in times of a pandemic, Oliver Calle and Nina Laurie