Covid-19 Responses of Local Communities around the World

Exploring Trust in the Context of Risk and Fear

Khun Eng Kuah, Gilles Guiheux, Francis K.G. Lim, Khun Eng Kuah, Gilles Guiheux, Francis K.G. Lim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032270777
• eBook ISBN: 9781000787702
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care
• Index: Social Sciences

Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe.

Examining cases from the Americas, Europe and Asia – including Mexico, Brazil, China, India, France, and Belgium – Kuah, Guiheux, Lim and their collaborators look at how communities have coped with the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, as well as the public health concerns. Using a framework of risks, fear, and trust, they evaluate how the global health crisis has both revealed and exacerbated a deep crisis of confidence in institutions and systems around the world. In reaction to this they also look at how individuals, social groups and communities have faced fears and built trust at a more local level. The units of spatial analysis in these cases include urban cities, neighbourhoods, slum settlements, migrant camps, schools, markets and homes, for a broad spectrum of case types and rich empirical data.

Essential reading for social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of other disciplines looking to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic internationally and on a multi-scalar level.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Preface
• 1 Negotiating trust, risk and fear during the COVID-19 pandemic: Responses within local communities across the world
• 2 Trust and modalities of social action in the pandemic
• 3 Practicing safe eating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong: A trust in action perspective
• 4 State-led COVID-19 governance and the negotiation of trust in local Chinese communities in the Greater Bay Area of China
• 5 COVID-19 responses of displaced slum dwellers in Delhi: Who to trust and rely on in times of sanitary and economic crisis?
• 6 COVID-19 responses of women’s solidarity networks in Brazil: Levels of protection and (mis)trust in a polarized society
• 7 Trust in business in times of COVID-19: The case of the Aubervilliers garment wholesale market
• 8 Trust beyond binary choices: Belgian Chinese immigrants’ localization of a “Chinese bubble” in the “Belgian bubble” in the COVID-19 pandemic
• 9 “Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear”: Trust and community cultivation for risk response of a Chinese immigrant group in the United States
• 10 Who to trust?: International migration risks and responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Mexico and Central America
• Index