The COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of life. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Inocent Moyo, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
• Editors: Moyo, Inocent; Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J
• Contents: Notes on Contributors vii 1 The planetary impact of COVID-19 1 Inocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2 Reengaging power: state responses to COVID-19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and the United States of America 9 Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Kgoto Jan Mbele 3 COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma, transformations, and deborderisation: ethics, politics, and spirituality and alternative planetary futures 29 Ananta Kumar Giri 4 The COVID-19 moment: exacerbation of narrow nationalisms and their toxicity to integration aspirations 42 Zenzo Moyo 5 COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics of health, and security entanglement in West Africa 60 Olukayode A. Faleye 6 The conundrum of balancing between COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa: a responsibility to protect perspective (R2P) 75 Patrick Dzimiri 7 A Trojan horse: critically exploring data as a colonial instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 90 Kyle John Bester and Danille Elize Arendse 8 Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic 109 Robert Maseko 9 “On est pas de cobayes”: Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment 127 Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi 10 “#Corona Jihad”: remanufacturing Islamophobic narratives during COVID-19 in contemporary India 141 Sayan Dey Index 160
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Subjects: 616.24144; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects -- Case studies; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000917277; 9781000917215
• Related ISBNs: 9781032404509; 9781032540993
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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