Global capital and pandemics

Submitted by Zac Muddle on 21 September, 2020 - 5:32 Author: Camila Bassi
Global capital and pandemics

Audio and video introduction, plus an article/transcript, from a meeting of the same name. Camila Bassi delivered this talk at the AWL online meeting on 30 August 2020. For future AWL online meetings see here. The outbreak of SARS Coronovirus 2 or COVID-19 proceeds an escalation of recent epidemics and proto-pandemics: notably, H5N1 or Avian influenza, SARS, MERS, Swine flu, Ebola, and Zika. Camila tells the story of HIV/AIDS and SARS to explore the nexus between capitalist political economy, nature, and emergent infectious diseases; concluding that, without radical change to how we organise and run our world, our future will be locked into this deadly trajectory. For a transcript of the talk and the full set of references, see Camila's blog.



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