Pandemic: differentiated impacts on ethnic communities

Department of Political Science, National University of Colombia

As the second installment of the course organized by the Department of Political Science of the National University of Colombia: “Post-Covid Era or a New Normal. An Analysis from Political Science,” a panel was convened on Friday, September 18, to address the problem of differentiated impacts on ethnic communities during the pandemic.

The following discussions will cover:

-Climate crisis – energy transition: are we at a point of no return? Why is the energy transition more necessary than ever? (October 2) 

-The role of the peasantry in the midst of the crisis. Turning our gaze to the countryside: bets on food sovereignty (October 9) 

-Power relations: between citizen control practices and solidarity to face the crisis (October 16) 

-Prison policy, an institutional crisis (October 30)