Photography: Police officers and a youth during the lockdown in the city of Banfield, Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), © Germán Romeo Pena

Contents

• Authoritarianism, Crisis, and Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19: Global Perspectives from the South, by the IRGAC-Editorial Commitee

Latin America

• COVID as the (Second) Death of Neoliberalism?, by Pedro Salgado

• What does authoritarianism mean in times of coronavirus?, by Gustavo Robles

• Latin America in a Pandemic: Rights, Authoritarianism, and Conservatism, by Ailynn Torres Santana

• The Platform Capitalist Pandemic. An introductory inquiry into the Brazilian neoliberal management of uberization during the COVID-19 lockdown, by Fabio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco

• Living (and Working) in Pandemic Times. Labour, Care Work, and Struggles in, Against, and Beyond the (Capitalist) Pandemic, by Mariano Féliz

• Institutional Violence in the Time of Coronavirus: Argentina and its Democratic Deficit, by Julieta Mira

• Covid-19 and the Intensification of Urban Conflicts in Brazil, by Hugo Fanton

• Coronacrisis. The historical conjuncture to eradicate “development”, by Inés Durán Matute

• Afraid to #StayAtHome: Bolsonaro’s mobilization of fear during the pandemic, by Sabrina Fernandes

Asia

• The COVID-19 pandemic and the infrastructure of hate in India, by Fathima Nizaruddin

• Revisiting the Panopticon and the Synopticon: An inquiry into the naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of the COVID-19 pandemic, by Gopal Krishna

• Myanmar: Media Fragility and Space for Authoritarianism during COVID-19, by Nwet Kay Khine

• Unravelling Duterte’s Iron Hand in the Time of COVID-19, by Verna Viajar

• Fragmentary Governance of the Coronavirus Crisis in Turkey and Contradictions of the AKP Regime, by Ülker Sözen

• Covid-19, Inequality, and a Place to Shelter, by Ayşegül Can

Africa

• Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society, by Boaventura Monjane