Contents

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

Latin America

• 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
• Coronavirus Crisis. 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

Africa

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