Workshop 2

State (and) Power in the Pandemic

25.02.2021

This second workshop “State (and) Power in the Pandemic” revolves around different policing practices and surveillance mechanisms – from (community) policing and prisons to digital surveillance – during the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on first-hand ethnographic research during the first wave of the pandemic, speakers will discuss the (re)configurations of state power from Mexico and China to Tunisia and Nicaragua and the role therein of specific state actors.

Kevin G. Karpiak, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University will act as a convener for this session.

Covid-19
and Turmoil

Agenda

Time: 14:00h-17:00h (CET)

Chair: Lene Swetzer (CCDP/Graduate Institute Geneva)

Convener: Kevin G. Karpiak, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University

Lene Swetzer & Samira Marty (Co-Organisers)
Welcome Note & Housekeeping

Jonathan Austin, (IHEID / CCDP)
Confinement, Before and Now: Visualizing Hidden Suffering

Maya Avis, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Security, Surveillance and Vaccination in Palestine/Israel during the Pandemic

Myriam Amri, Harvard University
A police state under pandemic times: the case of Tunisia

Catrina Schwendener, Goldsmiths, University of London
Feeling looked after during lockdown: The role of Chinese community bureau checkpoints in the pandemic

Break (10 mins)

Julienne Weegels, Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam

Pandemic fears and state veils: Covid-19 in the ‘cemetery of the living’

Adina Radosh, University of Toronto
Mexican police departments amidst the pandemic: A ceaseless mediation

Q&A Session

Closing of the Session