Covid-19 Restrictions in the Global South
Accelerating Inequalities, Worsening Human Rights
Covid-19 Restrictions in the Global South
Accelerating Inequalities, Worsening Human Rights
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This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection is one of the first scholarly books in the world to address the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions on the Global South.
Bringing together health and social scientists from around the world--including many leading figures from Global-South countries such as Angola, Bolivia, Colombia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria--the book shows how, in low- and middle-income countries in particular, Covid responses often exacerbate problems and inequalities around education, gender, socioeconomics, and politics and political economics. They negatively and disproportionately affect routine medical treatments; vaccination programmes; access to maternity and neo-natal care; child learning and socialization; women's caring responsibilities; gender-based socioeconomic differences; and rates of domestic violence, all while accelerating existing trends towards political authoritarianism and damaging democratic processes.
In offering in-depth perspectives on all these problems, this book ultimately challenges practitioners to include Southern perspectives in future emergency response-planning, and it develops both global and multidisciplinary paradigms to guide them in their efforts.
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Table of Contents
1. Lockdowns as a Crisis of Both Public Health and Science Policy: Learnings from a Case Study
T. Sundararaman (People's Health Movement and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)
2. Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)
3. Covid-19 Restrictions and their Impacts on Society: Experiences from Uganda
David Musoke and Suzan Nakalawa (Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda)
Part II. Economic Impacts and the Impacts on the Informal Market
4.: Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic on Low-Income Migrant Workers: Ethnographic Reflections from the Neighborhood of Kapashera, National Capital Region of Delhi, India
Deepanshu Mohan, Hima Trisha, and Shubhangi Derhgawen (O.P. Jindal Global University, India)
5. The Impacts of Covid Restrictions in Bolivia and the Importance of a Subnational Analysis
Alejandra Gonzales Rocabado (Conservation Strategy Fund, Bolivia)
6. The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Livelihood Security and Access to Healthcare Services Among Informal Vendors in Zimbabwe
Tinashe Tony Chikafa (Kryptos Solutions, Zimbabwe) Lewis Sibanda (Zimbabwean Superior Courts and Open University, UK), Nathan Chiboyiwa (Ministry of Health and Childcare, Zimbabwe), and Egepha Jokomo (Africa University, Zimbabwe)
Part III. Covid Restrictions and Aggravated Inequalities of Race and Gender
7. Afro-descendant Populations and the Covid-19 Crisis in Cartagena de Indias: Analyzing the Necro-politic Practices from an Intersectional Perspective
Airlín Pérez Carrascal (Political and human rights activist, Columbia)
8. The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns in the Global South: Voices from Humanitarian Frontline Workers
Llanos Ortíz Montero (Kings College London, UK)
9. Lockdowns and Girls' Schooling: Old Story, New Twist
Reva Yunus (University of York, UK)
Part IV. Education and the Public Sphere
10. Educational Leadership and Policy in Angolan Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and Prospects
Nicolau Nkiawete Manuel (Agostinho Neto University, Angola)
11.Reshaping the Medical and Political Discourses on School Closures during the Pandemic: The Turkish Case
Tomris Cesuroglu (VU University, Netherlands); Aysuda Kölmelen (Bard College, Germany); and Gül Pamucku Gunaydin (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey)
12.Covid-19 as a 'Politico-health' crisis: Reflections on Africa's Economies of (Information) Control
George Ogola (University of Nottingham, UK)
13. Missing in Action: Academia, Neoliberalism, and the Loss of Internationalist Critique during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Aleida Borges and Toby Green (Kings College London, UK)
Product details
| Published | 06 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781350542396 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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