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Covid’s Chronicities

From Urgency to Stasis in a Pandemic Era

Edited by Lenore Manderson and Nancy J. Burke

University College London, 2025

Ponders how the pandemic didn’t just disrupt the world—it deepened existing fractures and forced communities to navigate an unpredictable new normal.

While the initial urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic fades, its long-term disruptions continue to reshape societies and individual lives. Covid’s Chronicities captures the global experience of a crisis that has evolved into a persistent state of uncertainty. Based on research from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, this volume examines how governments and communities have navigated everything from shifting policies to the social and economic aftershocks of the pandemic.

This volume reveals how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities and exposed deep structural neglect while also highlighting the resilience of communities, such as Indigenous knowledge systems and grassroots mutual aid networks. Tracing the pandemic’s transition from emergency to enduring crisis, the authors offer a sobering yet hopeful analysis of how people continue to remake their worlds in the face of ongoing instability.
 
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Undisciplined Cuba

Tracing Continuities of Resistance and Archipelagic Geographies

Christina M. García

Rutgers University Press, 2027

Undisciplined Cuba brings scholars of diverse disciplines and moves through multiple temporalities and geographies, allowing Cuba to emerge as a negotiated reality. Rather than rehearse narratives of exceptionalism and Cold War relationships that have detached the nation from its Antillean neighbors, this edited volume understands Cuba as deeply embedded in the Caribbean archipelago. Its chapters encompass feminist activism, public health, cinema for social justice, marine geopoetics, racial geographies, and literary corporealities. Drawing from an archipelagic framework and a decolonial practice of undisciplining, the anthology counters the tendency to treat landscapes, and cultural and political manifestations as artifacts of a national identity or evidence of a discrete geopolitical entity. Instead, Undisciplined Cuba attends to processes, to dynamic relations and continuities of resistance that defy periodization and institutional representation. The book offers a granular view of Cuba and an approach to Caribbean studies that imagines networks in excess of traditional categories of thought.

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Viral Loads

Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19

Edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke, and Ayo Wahlberg

University College London, 2021

A diagnosis of global inequalities exploited by COVID-19 and how we might evolve.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted some lives more than others. While more than half the world’s population experienced physical restrictions in the wake of the virus, Viral Loads reveals how the international response placed disparate burdens on exploited communities across the globe. Contributors from six continents situate the pandemic within a highly connected yet exceedingly unequal world marked by fragmented communities, austere economies, and unstable governments. Ambitious in its scope, Viral Loads insists that medical anthropology must be part of any future efforts to build a new post-pandemic world.  
 
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