global south

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

Copying and COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba

By Laura-Zoë Humphreys

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

The day before the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, I walked ten kilometers of Centro Habana in the …

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

By Ranjani Mazumdar

[Ed. note: This is the final instalment of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. You can read part one here and part two here]

In his book Planet of Slums, Mike Davis presents …

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

By Elmo Gonzaga

[Ed. note: This piece is the second of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. As additional posts are in the series are published, we’ll add links to them here.]

Empty, predawn streets marked …