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Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 29, 2020

China under Lockdown: Social Media and Labor Conditions during the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Anan Zhou

[Ed. note: This is the final installment of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

Internet-Based Mutual Aid

Considering the risk of traffic control following the lockdown of Wuhan, I decided to leave my parents’ house …

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 22, 2020

COVID-19, Labor Mobility, and Care Work in China

By Yang Zhan

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

Since the 1990s, China has implemented various policies to reduce friction in the movement of labor and capital in order to insert itself …

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020

The Last Chronicle: From Peking University Students to the Indigenous People of Alto Solimões

By Francisco Foot Hardman

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

When some of my colleagues from IEL-Unicamp who study Indigenous Languages and Education, among them Filomena Sândalo and Wilmar D’Angelis, sent a …

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 5March 6, 2020

Assembling the Cosmopublic: Art Intelligence and Object-Oriented Citizenship

By Hai Ren

Climate change, pandemics, and other global threats have forced humankind to confront its own inevitable extinction – and critically, these problems involve not merely humans but also nonhuman beings. The United Nations calls upon cities around the world to make …

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 5March 1, 2020

Re-functioning “Tropical Architecture”: Anti-colonial Constructions in Chinese-built Architecture in Africa, 1960s-70s

By Ye Liu

The China-Africa engagement has been a heated topic of debate for the past decade, not only in academia, but also with the general public. Such engagement is nothing new and can be traced back to the early 1960s. The Third …