PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

Vol. 17 No. 1-2 (2020): The Great Dis-Equalizer: The Covid-19 Crisis Special Issue

‘Distanza | Distance’ 2020 © Alice Loda

Special double issue, edited by Alice Loda and Nick Manganas.

Cover image, ‘Distanza | Distance’ 2020 © Alice Loda.

Published: 2021-01-28

The Great Dis-Equalizer: the Covid-19 Crisis Special Issue (Essays)

A Borrowed Life: Introduction to the Great Dis-Equalizer—the COVID-19 Crisis

Nicholas Manganas; Alice Loda
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Privilege, Precarity and the Epistemic and Political Challenge of COVID-19

Kiran Grewal
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Struggle with Multiple Pandemics: Women, the Elderly and Asian Ethnic Minorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pan Wang
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Poetics in the Time of Pandemic. There is Always Going to be a Before and an After

Liliana Edith Correa, Frederick Copperwaite
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Respirare il tempo: Re-Azioni di superamento COVID-19

Gianluigi Mangiapane, Cadigia Hassan
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From Ise to the World in a Time of Pandemic

Yuliya Grikun, Mária Kubincová, Sau Man Luk, Anastasia Petrova, David Rands, Elham Saberi, Kaitlyn Ugoretz
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Torn between Two Worlds: Unsettled Sense of Place and Belongingness between Old and New Homelands during a Global Pandemic

Suborna Camellia, Kazi Nazrul Fattah
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Studying Abroad at Home: The Meaning of Education Abroad During the Pandemic

Ioannis Gaitanidis
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How My COVID-19 Disruption Became My Privileged Boom Time

Noah Riseman
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Who are you? What do you do? What do you bring? A florin!

On Reclusions, Dissidences, Mutual Aid, Kinships, and Irony during Italian Lockdown

Cristina Balma-Tivola
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Queer Disidentification: Or How to Cook Chinese Noodles in a Global Pandemic?

Hongwei Bao
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Ni una menos: Colombia’s Crisis of Gendered Violence during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Kate Averis
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COVID-19 and Political Polarization: Notes on Australia’s Chinese Communities

Mobo Gao
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107 Days and Counting...

Marcello Messina
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The Great Dis-Equalizer: the Covid-19 Crisis Special Issue (Cultural Works)

Mourning le Temps Perdu (Proust 1988–1990): Eating Together in Pestilence

Jean Duruz
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CROWN Crónica

Susana Chavez-Silverman
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Heaven on Earth

CJ Vallis
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Pleas Through a Glass

Chad Hammond
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COVID-19 Angst

FRITZ ILONGO
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Dollar Daze in the Days of the Big CV

Peter J Ross
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General Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Transnational Memory and the Fukushima Disaster: Memories of Japan in Australian Anti-nuclear Activism

Alexander Brown
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Essays

Remembering Romit Dasgupta

Vera Mackie, Thomas Baudinette, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Debbie Chan, Joanna Elfving-Hwang, Mark Pendleton, Katsuhiko Suganuma
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Cultural Works

La vaca

Angelique K. Dwyer
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