Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis

ABSTRACT

This is the final instalment of a two-part forum series titled Cultural Chronicles of COVID-19, edited by Marina Levina. In part 1, the forum focussed on the role of language in shaping cultural response to the pandemic. The second part of the forum engages with the United States and global politics surrounding COVID-19. The authors focus on race, disability, colonialism, and public health to examine how politics are conducted during the pandemic.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• pandemic
• politics
• race
• disability
• colonialism

Acknowledgements

The editor would like to thank Dr. Robin Boylorn for seeing merit in this work and for providing a supportive space in which to do it.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Marina Levina, Pandemics and the Media. Peter Lang, 2015.

2 Marina Levina, "Queering Intimacy, Six Feet Apart." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 7, no. 3 (2020): 195-200.