COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact
Edited by Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody
Published
Oct 3, 2022Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529225655Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 3, 2022Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529225679Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Though a globally shared experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies across the world in radically different ways. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South.
With international contributors from a variety of disciplines including health, economics and geography, the book investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights, among other issues. Its analysis illuminates further subsequent crises of interconnection, a pervasive health provision crisis and a resulting rise in socioeconomic inequality.
The book’s assessment offers an urgent discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socioeconomic contexts in the world.
“This book reminds us that health, prosperity and stability are indivisible, and that we need a holistic policy framework to meet the challenges of our time.” Giovanni Farese, European University of Rome
“A truly international and transdisciplinary effort, drawing on the on-the-ground experiences of different countries' responses to COVID-19 and highlighting the lessons from the experiences. A must-read for those interested in understanding how social, economic and political factors combined to mediate COVID's local impacts in the Global South and the evolution of policy responses over time.” Francis Owusu, Iowa State University
Gerard McCann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies and Head of International Programmes at St Mary's University College, a college of Queens University Belfast.
Nita Mishra is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, and Chair of the Development Studies Association Ireland.
Pádraig Carmody is Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.
Foreword – Colm Brophy
Introduction – Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody
Part I: Perspectives and Theory
1. Surviving Necropolitical Development amid Democratic Disinformation: A Pandemic Perspective from Brazil – Su-Ming Khoo and Mayara Floss
2. COVID-19, International Development and the Global Economy – Stephen McCloskey and Amit Prakash
3. Global Finance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa – Howard Stein and Rick Rowden
4. COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality and Global Development: A Primer – Rory Horner
Part II: Policy Context
5. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Time of Pandemic: An Indian Overview – Sujay Ghosh and Naveen Das
6. Local Community and Policy Solutions to a Global Pandemic – Pieternella Pieterse
7. Pandemic Structure and Blowback: Endemic Inequality and the New (ab)Normal – Pádraig Carmody and Gerard McCann
8. Ending the Pandemic – Zeke Ngcobo and Thomas Pogge
Part III: Regional and Community Responses
9. Coping Mechanisms of Communities in Odisha: A Human Rights-Based Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Nita Mishra, Sushree Sailani Suman and Anuradha Mohanty
10. To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown: A Pragmatic Policy Response to COVID-19 in Zambia – Chrispin Matenga and Munguzwe Hichambwa
11. Latin America: Politics in Times of COVID-19 – Salvador Martí i Puig and Manuel Alcántara Sáez
12. Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Edward Lahiff, Pham Quang Minh and Nguyễn Trọng Chính
Conclusion – Ashok Acharya
